But that's not a direct comparison of dry with liquid, S-04 is not the same as WLP013.
I wouldn't go that far - they're not identical, but you wouldn't want them marrying. The WLP001 subgroup and 1056/US-05 subgroup are still more closely related to each other than they are to the original BRY-96.
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/thread...f-white-labs-yeast.642831/page-2#post-8916547
You've obviously not been listening to the right people. The stress of drying inhibits ester production. For a lot of people that's not a problem, for instance if you just want something clean to ferment hoppy beers, and for lagers a lack of esters is a positive bonus. But it is a problem particularly for British and Belgian styles, compounded by the fact that the choice of dry yeasts for British styles is particularly unreflective of the diversity in the real world of British brewing.
At least that's changing a little bit -
AEB are now doing (in the UK at least) 500g bricks of a yeast they claim is from Tetley, and
WHC have just launched dried versions of several of their strains including their version of 1318 - but the options for British styles even in liquid form aren't great compared to what you can get from eg
Brewlab.