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> on guitar is much more difficult than piano.

Yes of course! Classical guitar is on the level with all the other instruments. Those guitarists, of course, can all read music.

> some sort of counterpoint

Could you even write counterpoint in tab? Would it make sense? It'd be so much harder to read and write than just regular music at that point...

Edit:

> find the right starting point to whatever song you want to jam over, and start going up and down the same pentatonic scale pattern

This is very not true. It's only true for the simplest chord changes. And it's equally true and false for every other instrument. But... at the risk of being misunderstood again... guitarists are lazy and guitar affords many shortcuts.