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Well people do say that the magnetic attraction that the pickups have on the strings can reduce sustain. Ergo, more pickups = less sustain. Whether that effect would be noticeable is debatable.
I have to say my first response to the pic was: “how much hum would a humbucker buck if a humbucker could buck hum?”.
Edit: a word
A humbucker would hum as much as a humbucker could hum if a humbucker could buck hum, I guess