If you have perfect conditions for photography, good indirect light, and stop down to around f/8 all 'normal' lenses perform more of less identically. You'll get some colour casts from some lenses, but nothing that can't be sorted out these days in software to give you more or less identical images.
If however you want to do something a bit off the well trod path, say wider than 28mm, or longer than 70mm, or directly into the sun, or very close focus, or very open, or very closed, then that's what you pay your money for.
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