First off, what NextLevel said. That is an excellent post.
I have used plenty of different stuff. I always enjoy a few moments of hitting with something new to try different setups. But what NextLevel has said is pretty accurate. Most rubbers work on most blades. Most blades work with most rubbers.
The rubbers that Stiga makes are made in one place. The rubbers that Butterfly makes are made somewhere else. The rubbers for most of the rest of the "tensioned" rubbers are made at the ESN factory. If you are talking about Tensor type rubbers there are pretty much 3 sources. All of the ESN rubbers have slight differences. However, regardless of the slight differences, they are all made in the same place. So they have comparable characteristics. I am obviously taking the Chinese rubbers out of the equation, but they are, for the most part, different in kind from the rubbers we are talking about.
So if you like one Stiga rubber, chances are you will like others even though they are not exactly the same. If you like T05 you will probably like T80 and T64 even though, each will take a few hours to adjust to and you may like one more than the others. Same can be said for all the ESN rubbers.
Now, here is the real kicker. If I was to give you a blade and rubber combination and you were to hit with it and think it was just awful, and I somehow forced you to do all your training with that setup for two months and you trained 3 hours a day, 4-5 days a week, by the end of a month or, at most, two months, that setup would feel very natural and you would feel sort of like it was made for you. Even though you thought it was no good at the beginning. From that point when it started feeling like it was made for you, you would judge everything else based on your experience with that blade which, at first you did not like.
Say it was really slow. When you picked up a faster blade you would feel and think: "this is too fast." Say it was really fast, fast enough to give you problems with your control and to force you to use less impact on your strokes; when you tried something slower you would think: "this is too slow." Even if the slower speed setup would be much better for your overall development.
We judge everything else based on what we are already used to.
I have two friends who are pro players who are both from Europe. Both were both on the junior national teams for their respective countries. Independently, they both told me that, when they were developing, their coach did not ask what they liked or wanted but gave them a racket setup and that was what they had to use. For both, the blade was all wood and 5 ply. It was in the Off-/All+ speed category. For both the rubbers were basic rubbers. These days, the rubbers might be an early version of a tensor rubber or a mid speed high control tensor. They were given Sriver or Mark V. These days the rubbers could be the conventional ones. They would be fine. But a rubber like Xiom Vega Pro (FH) and Vega Europe (BH) would probably be fine.
There are several reasons why using a setup like this, at least until you are about 2100 (USATT rated) is that the extra feeling from the wood and the extra dwell time and slightly slower speed, allows your nervous system to figure stuff out without you even being aware that this is happening. The thing is, with a blade like a carbon blade that is fast, you have a lot less dwell time and a lot less of an ability to feel what happens when you contact the ball. And a blade like that also makes it so, you can't feel when your contact is not good and the carbon makes it so the shot quality is still not bad when the contact is not so good. So it helps make a bad shot seem, well, not so bad.
Whereas, a 5 ply, all wood blade with good flex, good dwell time and lots of feeling, helps you feel with you make good contact and when you make bad contact. It is as important to feel when you make bad contact as when you feel the good contact. You are also rewarded for the good contact and sort of punished for the bad contact with a worse shot. But this feedback actually helps your nervous system sort some stuff out so that your contact improves much faster than if you used a Carbon blade.
The feedback from the blade also helps your system learn the touch it takes to keep the ball on the surface of the rubber longer, how to make more impact and still have a delicate, brush contact. That is also harder to learn with a blade that has carbon that makes all different impacts feel much more similar.
Once you are at about the level of 2100, those carbon blades may do more for your game. But before that, usually not.
And any good, top of the line Butterfly or ESN rubber would be great on a 5 ply all wood Off- blade for someone who is at more of an intermediate level. Whereas, the same blade with a slightly more simple rubber, not as fast or spinny, would make sense for someone who is starting.
As NextLevel has already said, this idea of searching for the holy grail of blade and rubber combination, is a ruse. All rubbers work adequately on all blades. Some blades have more feeling. Some rubbers have more or less feeling. Sometimes you put a rubber on a blade after a previous rubber and you think, the other rubber felt better. But if you play with it for a few hours, you get used to it. And then they will work fine together. So that is more, your nervous system getting used to something new than anything else.
And if you are using a ZJK Super ZLC, you have already spend more for your blade than you should have.
Don't believe the marketing hype. I was joking when I said Bryce HighSpeed was best on the newest Butterfly blade.