re: What's the most versatile breed of dog?

I’ve had two fantastic Labs in my lifetime. I wanted to do more quail hunting and switched it up about 7 years ago and bought a GSP. I now have two. Let me begin by saying the first one I purchased has been an unbelievable all around dog. Extremely bright, easy going, great with kids, great hunting dog at pointing, retrieving and tracking, overall great companion. She goes with me everywhere. She came from excellent stock. I thought that I needed two since the first one was so good. The second one is high energy, destructive, gun shy, meek and really worthless
Now she is a very sweet dog and great with my kids but a polar opposite of my first. With a GSP there seems to me no middle ground. You get a 10 or you get a 2.