When I was young, we had family friends with a small peach orchard. So each year would always get a couple of bushels of tree fresh peaches.

The OP is spot on. I've never had a peach come close to how amazing they were.

But to your point, there was still a variance among those peaches too. However that was 95% to do with how ripe they were.

It became a game in our family on timing the peaches peak ripeness. You had to balance on how close you wanted it to get against if someone else might eat it first.