Agree that the subjective appearance of 'more power' from a tube amp is due to the fact of "soft clipping" (the amplifier when pushed to the limit of maximum power distorts in a friendly way) vs the solid state amp's tendency to sound dreadful when pushed to the limits and it begins to 'clip' the signal off.
Solid state amps could be designed to sound like the tube amp if the manufacture wanted to do so. (but the tradeoffs in non-clipping situations causes most if not all to avoid this.)
Solid state amps could be designed to sound like the tube amp if the manufacture wanted to do so. (but the tradeoffs in non-clipping situations causes most if not all to avoid this.)