Perhaps it's not an especially good bass?
Of all the FL basses I've owned, ranging from Squiers through MM (both pre EB and EBMM), Fender Ps and Js up to the Custom Shop Jaco Relic, Ric, Status, Modulus, and Wals, I'd rate the 'Rays as those I liked the least, the baked-in tone works on fretted for me, but much less so on FL. I might be wrong but given EBMM have pretty much stopped producing factory FLs over the last few years suggests I'm not alone?