So far I guess I have been honest enough with myself about what I wanted in a new bass to avoid buying one I did not love. I do not love them all equally and I have not kept them all. Each one I have sold I have regretted parting with even though the time to part had come. I performed with every bass I have bought except the fretless Jazz and that was left out only because I never thought I could play it well enough to play it in public. And that would be the one I regret parting with the most because, you know, if I had tried harder....
Anyway, I had tons of trouble learning to love a five string. The wide ones were too wide for my left hand, the narrow ones too narrow for my right. That "just right" fiver simply did not exist for me. Then, mostly on a whim, I bought a Squier VI with its seriously tight string spacing simply because they are so preposterous as to be cool! Both hands adapted to that because it was so different from anything else I played. Now, I can happily play narrow to medium spaced fivers just fine. If you want to give that LTD one last try you should borrow a guitar and play that for a few weeks. You don't have to become a guitarist, just force yourself to play one for a while. You might find that the LTD 205 suddenly feels quite natural after a few weeks of guitar playing!
I bought the Squier VI with the secondary purpose of maybe learning enough guitar playing tricks to fill in for the electric guitar that was missing from our church band in the occasional places where its absence was most keenly felt. Before I could do that we managed to enlist a few real guitarists so that problem was solved. But I quickly grew to love the VI and it along with my other two basses is used regularly. The whim was satisfied and the guitarist problem was solved without me (which is good because I really, really suck as a guitarist!!) but the love of the quirks of a unique kind of bass guitar lives on.
