This is less about the scope and more about you and finding your lane.
High-end guns and high-end scopes are similar in that they're extremely difficult to compare because no retailer carries everything you'd want to try, and if they did, they wouldn't let you mess with them. Reviews at the high end are always gushing puffery, so the only way to know is to buy.
My first scope was a ZCO 420. Everything else I've purchased since has been a lesser brand. When you do a side-by-side comparison, ZCO image quality and turrets are objectively better than my Steiner M- and T-series, Trijicon, Meopta, and S&B scopes.
Comparison is where things get funky, though, and we come around to objectivity's practical limitations. When it's scope vs. scope, differences, and seemingly choices, are fairly clear. However, when it's you and your gun vs. the target, the ZCO's measurable betterness has a fairly low probability of making a performance difference. It may, and it will sometimes, but it won't far more often.
Certain makes just look better to me, also. With ZCO, Meopta, or Steiner, I just see the image, but with Nightforce, Leupold, and Vortex scopes I always feel like I'm looking through glass, if that makes sense.
With scopes, there's a minimum threshold you should cross, but after that it's all up to your preference. The right zone for me as a well-trained, time-poor hobbyist is that Steiner T6Xi and competitors area.
Interestingly, I've reached a similar position on cars. In the mid-2010s, I decided I wanted a real sports car, so I first did several levels of racing school, then I test-drove everything under $150k: Audis, BMWs, Corvettes, etc. I ordered a '15 Cayman GTS, did PTS, Euro delivery, the whole thing. It's a perfect car in mountainous, maintained Europe, but it's absolute overkill used as a normal car in cratered, grid-street, F-150 Minnesota 98% of the time. Those 2% moments are glorious, but my next car will simply be "sporty".