Any reasons NOT to buy a 90's PRS CE?

[NegativeEase]

I have a '97 that plays very well indeed. Seriously lively for a bolt-on, despite a maple neck instead of mahogany.
Replaced its Dragon One pickups with the 1985 reissue set. It is now the stand-in for my beloved '87, which I no longer travel with.

Has the 5-way rotary - 90s version, slightly different from the original 80s wiring:
Position 2 is outer coils in series (rather than both full hums out-of-phase).
Position 3 is inner coils in series (instead of both full hums).
They kept the wonderful Stratty inner-coils-parallel wiring in Position 4.
1 & 2 are the straight-up humbuckers of course.

Not a 10-top but this one has a fairly pretty maple cap nonetheless. Nice rosewood too.
I'm quite happy with it.

It's touched the ground, I guess you're going to have to burn it now.

 

[Ascension]

I have a '97 that plays very well indeed. Seriously lively for a bolt-on, despite a maple neck instead of mahogany.
Replaced its Dragon One pickups with the 1985 reissue set. It is now the stand-in for my beloved '87, which I no longer travel with.

Has the 5-way rotary - 90s version, slightly different from the original 80s wiring:
Position 2 is outer coils in series (rather than both full hums out-of-phase).
Position 3 is inner coils in series (instead of both full hums).
They kept the wonderful Stratty inner-coils-parallel wiring in Position 4.
1 & 2 are the straight-up humbuckers of course.

Not a 10-top but this one has a fairly pretty maple cap nonetheless. Nice rosewood too.
I'm quite happy with it.

Looks almost dead on my 07 Custom 24. The only down side I know of is on some of the earlier guitars the darker colors if you leave them out in the light the dyes fade horribly. Other than that they are very very solid guitars.
Mine also has the 5 way with the stock HFS and VB pickups and I have grown to really like using the 5 way rotary after I got used to it.

 

[some_dude]

I used to have a 97 CE-22. I recently sold it due to downsizing to a smaller place. It was a great guitar.

The pic above isn’t me but it’s my guitar (I’m the guy standing behind him in the background). In this band the 5 way rotary came in handy because we had a bunch of guitar parts that were originally recorded on acoustic and the electric was just too cutting/punchy. The 7 and 9 positions on the rotary scoop out a lot of mids and made the guitar sit back further in the mix, which really worked for those songs and meant that he didn’t need to switch guitars.

That said, I eventually swapped the original Dragon 1 pickups for a JB/Jazz and converted it to a three way switch, which took the guitar from “makes cool sounds but barely gets played” to “gets played every day”. The rotary is cool when you can leave it in one place, but it’s clunky if you switch pickups a lot and hard to turn when your hands are sweaty.