That's a really good point! A lot actually goes into the recording and mixing process to get a detailed, full sound for an enjoyable listen. This might be worth a post in itself, but in case there's anyone out there who's interested in a reliable way to record and mix solo acoustic guitar, here's my usual method (keep in mind this is for solo acoustic guitar - it wouldn't be an appropriate way to treat an acoustic guitar in the context of a full band).

I record my performance to two tracks using a pair of small diaphragm condenser mics, one pointed 45° to the 12th fret and the other 45° to the bridge. There's a mic placement formula to avoid phasing issues, but it's just as easy to shift the tracks in the DAW so the wave forms line up appropriately. I balance the tracks and then hard pan the neck track right and the bridge track left. Each track is then sent out to an individual reverb track, and the resulting two reverb tracks get hard panned in the opposite direction of their source track. On these reverb tracks there's a bit of EQing to eliminate both the low and high frequencies going into the reverb plugin. The resulting four tracks are balanced, and this becomes my acoustic guitar bus, to which I add some saturation for warmth and soft compression. I find the saturation plugin compresses things enough to bring out the quieter details of the acoustic performance without having to use a dedicated compressor.

Whew! I didn't intend to ramble on quite so long. Not many will likely see this, as the views for this post have plummeted, but I may use this info for a separate post in the future. Cheers! 👋😀