I played Strats for years and that wasn't my experience but then again I preferred to play the neck pickup or neck and middle pickups and using 10 gauge strings-
I will say that I found Teles much easier to play but back in the 80's the Strats looked cooler-
Over the past few years I had gravitated toward Gibsons for certain songs but none of mine have tremolo bars and I don't want to mod them, so I use my 1990 Strat Ultra plus that came with the three types of Fender Lace sensors - blue in the neck, silver in the middle, and the two red coils setup like a humbucker in the bridge. With the latter you can play them in tandem or individually, bridge or neck side. But with the latest song I'm working on, I'm using the neck/bridge position.
And it is the one exception to Teles being easier to play- don't know if it's the ebony fretboard or some unique neck profile but it's a dream to play - probably the one Strat I do have a set of nine's on for strings-