I agree that Motown was king above all but I do think that Stax was a junior version of Motown

A bunch of young artists making great music in an unusual location [[neighborhood house and converted local movie theater)

I do believe that those locations are a big part of the appeal/mystique of the labels

If stax made the same music in a studio in downtown Memphis and Motown never had the west grand house but was always in their later downtown building [[Woodward?) I’m not sure that their stories play out the same way