I never thought one way or the other about the aesthetics of LP basses ... I never even saw them for a long time! They're just not very common really.
I think the first time I ever noticed one at all was Me'shell back in the 90s, and I'd been playing bass about 13 years by then.
I remember thinking it looked really cool and unusual on her.
I think I noticed Tom Hamilton playing one in an Aerosmith video from back then too, possibly "Living on the Edge?"
But ... when I saw that yellow-burst LPB1 that popped up on ebay a decade or so ago ... it was love at first sight. No idea why, I just instantly loved the look of it, and that was during that blissful period after I got a "real job" and before I had kids, when I could buy a bass on impulse! I'd never held one or heard one, but ... well, you've all heard me rave about it before