Strat wiring preference?

I like one tone on the neck, one on the bridge, the middle running through with no tone control. It isn't THAT different than having one be middle/bridge, but slightly. The wide open middle pickup gives a unique sound to an otherwise not so useful pickup position, and it brightens up the neck/middle switch position just a hair.

No treble bleeds. I vacillate on what cap value I like best for strats. All values seem to work for different things. I find that pots towards the top end of their tolerance range work a bit better for me (so, a 280k instead of a 230k, which might both be labeled 250k).

I thought about leaving it as is (no tone to middle pickup) but because it wasn't initially wired that way I drove in. I do use the middle pickup on Strats probably more than some, like on snappy clean rhythm tracks, so having tone control is a plus.

I like treble bleeds on Strats but prefer the 50's wiring on Teles that Leftee turned me on to.

I might experiment with the no tone to middle on one of my Strats, but with the proper wiring job.

I also like the volume delete, so just a master volume and tone. If I ever build another Strat it will be H-S-S with the same control configuration, except the bridge humbucker would not be connected to the tone pot.

Here’s my Strat partscaster.

With both my strats, the bridge pickup has a dedicated tone control, with the other tone control serving the middle and neck pickups. All using the modern wired arrangement, though at the next string change, I’ll swap to the 50s style, as it’s beneficial on my LP.
One strat has a fancy pickup switch, which allows the bridge tone control to be disconnected in the ‘middle + bridge’ position, thereby allowing a fatter bridge lead tone with its control turned down to the bloom point, but full treble for the in between quack.
TBH, with any of my guitars, I only ever use the tone control on the bridge pickup.

I have a Seymour Duncan Humbucker in the bridge position on my Strat and Texas Specials in the middle and neck spots. I use a 5 way selector. I have a 3 way mini-toggle switch in the hole where the last tone pot was. I just have a master tone and master volume for all 3 pickups. The switch manipulates the humbucker to parallel, series, or split coil configurations. I like it set up that way.

For Strats, my favourite is master volume with treble bleed, master tone and last tone replaced with a blender pot to mix the neck pup in any position.  Basically a 7 sound mod.

I also like the middle pickup with no tone control. I use a treble bleed all the time, 560pF and 150kΩ parallel resistor. I have used a blender pot, 500kΩ linear works nicely IMO, I prefer a parallel blender to the series blender. I only ever found the bridge/neck combination useable. In fact I prefer it to the middle on it's own so much that on my two Music Man guitars I have position three wired for neck/bridge and no middle pickup.

I use tone 1 on the neck, and tone 2 on the bridge. No tone on the middle. I put in a treble bleed.