I'd say SSS is the most 'pure' Strat and will give you the most Strat sounds. Its good if you want humbucker sounds but still want at least one dedicated single coil sound. Many find the single coil middle position to be all the brightness and single coil sound they need.
HSH is also really good because in combination with a 5 way switch you get a lot of parallel wired options between the middle single coil and humbucker which results in a lot of nice sounds. Both configs are very usable, it just depends on the sounds you're going for. The HSS will have more overall frequencies and low end and output which is useful if you plan to play more distorted and want more 'crunch' happening. It has less low end and will be noisier under higher gain and will have less output overall. The bridge position cuts through different and is a thinner sound than a humbucker. SSS is more 'balanced' and stays all within the single coil sounds. I save the series mode for a little volume boost for solos or songs where a bridge humbucker is really required. The parallel humbucker balances well with the single coils in output. I normally run the humbuckers in parallel, where they still have a bit of quack when in position 2, and sound (to me) reminiscent of a Tele in position 1. So the way my HSS guitars are wired is to use lower output humbuckers (I have a Suhr DSV in one, Thornbucker plus in the other), and have them wired to a series/parallel switch on the lower tone pot. But I DO like the tones of a humbucker in parallel. What I found when I expanded my thinking is that I reall don’t care for the tone of most humbuckers when they are split. The guitars I reach for first when heading out are my HSS Suhr S-types.
I did not see a need for me to really se humbuckers. Even though I owned a PRS, I saw humbuckers as “cheating”, and usable primarily in high gain music. Leo gave us Telecasters with two (or one!) type-appropriate single cool pickups and Stratocasterte with three. For a very long time, I was a Fender-style purist.
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