Question about fuzz

I love my Hizumitas. It definitely is different than my old Big Muff, which is now old enough to drink but still punched. But to be honest, either one when stacked with other gain sort of blend in a Venn diagram of sameness... Or same enough ness.

As I look through just this 2021 catalog from EQD, I see an army of attractively packaged fuzz pedals, each more clever than the last. And that's just one company. Every line seems to have multiple fuzzes, not even counting octave fuzz.

I seem to recall Josh Scott mentioning that fuzz isn't a particularly intricate or sophisticated circuit. Are we all just buying the same noise, more or less, in different clothes? Should we be skeptical of any company selling five different fuzz SKUs?

I know GAS is real and aesthetic matters, but is fuzz a fuzz more or less, or are there parameters to tweak that justify dozens and dozens of variantions?

I love my Hizumitas. It definitely is different than my old Big Muff, which is now old enough to drink but still punched. But to be honest, either one when stacked with other gain sort of blend in a Venn diagram of sameness... Or same enough ness.

As I look through just this 2021 catalog from EQD, I see an army of attractively packaged fuzz pedals, each more clever than the last. And that's just one company. Every line seems to have multiple fuzzes, not even counting octave fuzz.

I seem to recall Josh Scott mentioning that fuzz isn't a particularly intricate or sophisticated circuit. Are we all just buying the same noise, more or less, in different clothes? Should we be skeptical of any company selling five different fuzz SKUs?

I know GAS is real and aesthetic matters, but is fuzz a fuzz more or less, or are there parameters to tweak that justify dozens and dozens of variantions?