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Football is rubbish.
The 'big strings' obsession seemed to start when Stevie Ray Vaughn became popular - there's plenty of great music which was recorded on guitars strung with light strings....
Less treble more bass and mids.
On a Tele tho I think that might be a good thing.
I normally play 9.5s or 10s but the *hardtail Strat that I recently bought came with 11s and I love the sound and general feel of it as they don't feel like too taught 11s but like the OP, I couldn't bend the high E 11 comfortably and swapped it for a 10, but that still didn't feel right (too slinky). Hence, the 10.5s.
I know when I swapped to 9.5s a few years ago, I could feel the difference and thought it a good compromise but tonally, it was negligible.
Might try them out. My Gretsch is Long scale (25.5") and it came with 11s which sounded great, but did feel tight and was hard work. I tried 10s but it didn't seem to respond well to them. I then went back to 11s and tuned down to Eb, but sometimes it's a bit awkward being tuned to Eb, so last week I strung it with 10 to 52s in normal tuning. I'll play that a bit more but I might try these 10.5s as well.
1980 Tokai LS-80
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More recently I've gone 10 - 52 because you can buy them in bulk packs.
Finally I didn't notice a difference and I soon got used to lower tension.