So much goes into a guitar's sound that it's nearly impossible to boil it down into a single graph or chart.

I could say "[x] wood gets better resonance" or "[y] type of construction gives you more attack" or "[z] type pickups will give you a smoother tone", but it's all relative and it's all interlocked. Hell, two versions of the same exact guitar might sound more different than two guitars from different manufacturers with different types of wood; there is that much variability.

As a tiny example, dense wood tends to resonate more for solid body guitars, but a hollow-or-semi-hollow with light wood might resonate even more. Not only that, but the resonance might have different tonal qualities. So is it hard wood or light wood that resonates more? As this example illustrates, it depends on a lot of variables.

And that doesn't even touch on the other aspects of the sound. The amp and pedals you plug into will affect your tone a lot more than whether you have one type of neck material vs. another type.

With so many variables that are all interconnected, it makes sense that you're getting conflicting info; there's no clear-cut, universal answers.

The best advice that any guitar buyer could have is to just try and different guitars and pick the one you like the feel and sound of the most. If you like how it feels and sounds, nothing else really matters.