Any good single pickup bass can be pretty versatile. The stingray 2 band is MORE versatile imho because it's active with an exceptional preamp.... but it can never "quite" get a p bass mid forward tone that I crave at times.
A good precision bass is never scooped on it's own, it's always mid forward, and with plenty of lows and lots of highs too although you can cut treble and slightly boost mids with extreme use of the tone control.
Of course a 2 pickup bass is more versatile. HOWEVER, the player with skill can get lots of versatility out of any good solid single or multi pickup bass, passive or active.
The bass itself is never going to be terribly limiting.... anything with strings is pretty versatile and expressive in the right hands.
Precision is NOTE the least versatile bass ever made, though... it's certainly a pretty good example of simplicity.
Least versatile I've ever heard was one I played that had only piezo pickups and passive tone/volume. Tone was useless - it went from super bright to so quiet it was nearly useless, because it seems passive tone on piezo isn't particularly effective, at least in the examples I've used (my acoustic guitar has this issue too). Piezo has one good sound - can't do much with it, and it tends to remove a fair bit of the tonal versatility one can get from playing techniques - piezo just sounds like piezo, sort of (yes I'm exaggerating a bit).
Also my Aria Sinsonido bass lacks much versatility with it's stock bridge pickup system, but it's active and does have a functional tone control, so it wins over pure piezo passive in my experience.
So Precision is not least versatile bass. Just getting close to it.
.....never owned a stingray unfortunately, and lastly i dont hate....there's enuf of that in the world.
