Which MTB Hardtail: Canyon or Santa Cruz?

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@UKCarl @Austinin What are your thoughts about the Exceed being a bit rough on a 45+ year old body? Does the geometry + material + tire pressure absorb a lot of the chatter and battering? I think of the Michigan terrain as mostly up-and-down dirt, sand, roots and rocks with some dicy sections here and there; nothing extreme like killer descents or massive rock gardens. Still, I am on the bike for a while, and need the body to hold up through it all.