Oh, I've made quite a few HBs myself, both for me and customers, although I don't think I suffer the "proud father" syndrome, as, TBH, I hated several of of the ones I made, or, maybe it was the p'ups that hated the guitars I put'em in? As those prototypes went in other people's instruments and never came back, for whatever reason.
Bottom line: I have no problem in tell it how it is, even to myself, (well, I DO have ears, mind you) specially if I the designs had a certain tonal goal to accomplish or a task to fulfill, and come up too short or too long. But, just to paraphrase John Zart, "One man's trash can be another man's treasure".
HTH,