My personal experience: I bought a new mim fender P player and it’s a really nice instrument. Maybe I was lucky but it’s a good one. Maple fretboard, ocean turquoise with tort pick guard.
The pickup is well balanced and louder than my Custom Shop PJ and sounds less vintage but still a P character .
I bought it online, the return policies are really on the customer side, so you risk nothing if you don’t like what you get.
but if you have the budget for a G&L, then go for it 🙂