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Not entirely sure what's the age of "adult" for you but I started with carbon blade when i was 13 and now I'm 20 (took a lot of breaks here and there) so there's that
I do have 2 all-wood, YEO (EL-P / Vega JP) and Offensive S. YEO is probably my favorite all-wood after acoustic. I didn't like offensive S on the other hand, I was using MX-P with and it lacks a crisp feeling, something that I got from YEO and acoustic. It felt like I can't get a read from the blade.
Do you think I should just use my YEO instead or probably buy an all-wood that's actually had crisps feeling? or even re-buy an acoustic?
You seen to have become addicted to "crisp feeling" which I think is another word for what I call "hard contact". Looping is not about crisp feeling, it is about deforming the rubber and maybe the wood and getting the ball to stay on your paddle long enough for you to impart good spin onto it. Looping with good spin and hard contact is actually a higher level skill. When I was about your rating, liking blades like the YEO and trying out blades like the TBS set me back for a long time. IF you learn to use and appreciate the Offensive S, you will learn a lot. MX-P is a good rubber but it is probably challenging your current skill level.
Usually, when I say kids can use anything, I usually assume that kids are getting coaching from day 1, and adults are coming into coaching later in life with with all their bad habits set. Adults who have played basement and are used to hitting the ball hard need all the help they can get to retrain their instincts for spin and having good feedback on when they spin (little vibration) vs, when they flat hit (too much vibration) is helpful. With composite blades, you get little vibration no matter what you do. OF course, there are differences, but it takes training to seek them, training best acquired with a wood blade.
You can get an Acoustic, which is an excellent blade, but I am not a fan of wasting money. You have a perfectly good blade that can teach you the very thing you need to understand if you are trying to learn to loop proficiently. Learning to loop is in part about the art of increasing dwell time. Hard contact tends to reduce dwell time unless you have the skill to get the right contact depth, and that is a difficult skill to acquire and is even harder to acquire with a blade that doesn't tell you what to look for easily.