I have never had a gibby or any neck-bucker guitar that I didn't mod to have at least splittable coils at the neck, always loved it. Never had much use for a bucker neck sound really as I don't play dark jazz or thick violin leads.

In fact my fave on my '92 LP standard was to have the neck pickup not just split but wired in twin-single coil mode giving me pretty much the strat 2nd position sound on neck pup.