I suppose if there were no Hamers, I'd be playing a PRS as my main guitar. I love my Custom 22. But I don't play it a whole lot. Once every few months I break it out and am blown away by it again, and it get's played pretty regular for a week or so.
What struck me after watching the PRS DVD is all the quality control they have at every step of the process. They really drive home the fact that the guitars are inspected after every station. That's how they maintain high quality. Jol doesn't really talk a lot about QC. Prolly because the guys building them really know what they're doing, and don't need their work to be checked. The build process insures that the quality is consistent.
For whatever that's worth, just two different ways of building. Like Phoenix says, both builders love the guitar, and each has their own style philosophy.