FWIW...
I couldn't give a s&*t about relicking. I know some folks dig it and, well, whatever. If I buy a new guitar, I want it to be new. If I'd prefer a well-worn (or should that be "road worn"?) guitar, I'll buy a used one. So happens I've bought both...
Re the body plug, as it were: I've got an old Tele (a '64), and without realizing what it would take – and how much it would cost – I had it "restored," and this meant plugging a big a$$ rout done years before I got it to turn it into a "hybrid" Tele (original Tele bridge pup, middle Strat pup, Humbucker neck pup). In the end it would have been cheaper to just buy a new body, maybe even a new guitar BUT I must admit that, 1, I had the money and so didn't care and, 2, it's mighty nice to have my "old" guitar in better playing shape than it had ever been. I played that guitar for years, in different bands, on and off stage, recorded with it, drug it around town, never took care of it, etc., and I still have it and it feels and plays great. A new guitar might feel and play greater, but I've been down the road a piece with this one and it's nice we're both still around. It'll never be worth what it would if it hadn't been butchered, but I don't care about the money value which, in the grand scheme of things, is a pittance. It's just a fine, albeit beat-up, guitar.
