Most hyped turntable, tonearm, and cartridge?

Ihcho, I don't think you are a deliberate troll, but the kind of question you ask has no factual answer and is only a call for opinions on a subject that is probably for vinylphiles only a little less provocative than questions about Trump or religion.  You can see the battle lines forming already after only 8-10 posts. Ask yourself, what do you hope to learn from this thread that could possibly benefit you? I can't think of anything.

As regards Garrard 301 there is a factual answer.
An idler wheel taking motor noise and vibration directly to the platter is clearly a bad design.  All this noise and rumble for $20,000 is just a big laugh.  Afficionados are kidding themselves.
Yes time does move on in 70 years but all the 200kg bling tables with 30kg platters and costing up to $250,000 are over-hyped too.  You don't need all that to spin an LP quietly at a constant speed.

For me, if I had 10k to spend on a turntable and arm, I like the VPI Prime Signature with their Fat Boy gimbaled tonearm. (Just over 9k)
I have a 1983 Technics SL 1200 MKII with a few of the KAB mods.
It doesn't compare to my Super Prime Scout.

You could try at least Technics SP-10 mk2 without any mods, this is high-end Technics. Their SP-10 mk3 is ultra high-end.
The new one is SP-10R (drive about $7k) and SL-1200GAE turntable ($4k).

Even $900 SL-1200 mk7 is completely different turntable comparing to your old $400 hi-fi SL1200 mk2 @rushfan71

Back in the '70's when a lot of this started, we had a lot of different TTs in my shop.  Garrard was a joke back then--plastic and sold for about $40.00, I think.  Thorns' tables were hard to get for a while.  I think they were a couple hundred bucks...also belt drive as I remember and OK, but not perfect.

Linn-Sondek was supposed to be great.  It was a belt drive, as I remember, and had a lot of issues and kept putting out changes to fix them whenever a reviewer would point something out.

Technics came out with DD tables and all of a sudden, the ultimate tables were born!!  I forget all the numbers--an SP-10, maybe, was $500 dollars and pretty good, but of course the audiophile world had lots of negative things to say about them.  Shure arms (SME something--I forget all the numbers) were about $100.00-$125.00 and had removable head shells, which was judged to be a no-no back then for all kinds of reasons.  I forget all the arms with fixed head shells that came out about then. 

The physicists said the straight-arm tables were the best as they tracked better, but B&O limited theirs to their own cartridges, which were mediocre at best as I remember.  Another guy had a straight arm that you could put on a table, but it did not work very well.

Moving coil cartridges with various amps were in favor--Decca, Satin, Supex, Grado, etc.  AT and Shure still had MM ones and their prices started rising.  They were afterthoughts until then, I think.

My fav was the Transcriptor.  We had one in the window to attract people.  It never actually WORKED, of course, but it sure was pretty with its SME arm, etc.  I think we actually sold a couple of them--probably as art objects!

I would guess Panasonic Technics tables are still pretty good.  They started making them for discos so you could move the platter with your finger--MK 10 or 11 or something, and became a bit expensive.  I still think I sold more B&O with the tracking arm than any, but I forget.  I sold a lot of Thorns tables as well. Cassette tapes (METAL!) were big, as were Nakamichi tape decks, which broke but worked great when they did.

I would suggest going with Panasonic if they are still being made.

Cheers!