Things change. People want to upgrade all the time.
What if for arguments sake, one day you want a sadowsky. Id tou bought a fender for 1100 15 years ago, you're getting 11-1400 today to go towards that new bass assuming it's in good shape.
If you bought a schecther or a dean for like 7-800 back then, you're barely getting 500 back if that.
I personally have other reasons for prefering fender as well, and some of that is definitely in my head, but you cant discount resale value as a very good reason to buy fender.