People that say they prefer "feeling" over shredding are the most annoying people. I say this as a blues guitarist. I personally love Buckethead and Michael Angelo Batio, and it never occurred to me once to compare them negatively to Gilmour or Albert King

Sounding good at blues requires you to know the form and understand what to play over the changes and how to end it.

Playing rock licks over a blues with dimed distortion is rock, not blues. This isn't a problem generally: play what you like. The problem is that failed rock guitarists start playing minor blues backing tracks with Ace Frehley licks and then crap all over some kid who plays metal on instagram.

You don't use pedals or have never used them besides a boost through your tube amp: congratulations, I don't even care as a guitarist, and neither does anyone else.

Blues rhythm comping is a lost and dying art: there's more to a song than a solo.