It is not just the scanner that determines the outcome, but the skill of the user, and my experience tells me that 99% of buyers of the Epson scanners would benefit from formal technical training rather than leave the scanner to its own devices.
"Lab scans" can mean just about anything!
In a high street store, it could be a $2 scan tacked on to the processing of a roll of film, and the variations are considerable.
In a professional level lab it could mean a $400 scan for mural printing, or a simple JPEG for emailing. You do have to be specific!
Scanning 35mm is troublesome because of its size and not one scanner on the market excels over the other in this regard. The larger the format, the easier than scanning process becomes. Having said that, concentrating on getting your exposure spot-on in-camera should take priority of correcting errors at the scanning step (particularly contrast and exposure), which beginners often make considerably worse. Dust removal, straightening, scan-step USM and profiling for the print-step should be the most done.
Desktop scanners like the Epsons are nowhere near the absolute quality of drum scans, but for pro-lab drum scans, you pay a price, and would be expected to know your apples from your oranges, additional to the minutae of technical metrics that make set an average, ordinary scan apart from those that present a WOW! factor, and do so without floss and without artifice. I have used my Epson V750 for scanning of family photographs from the 1930s to the 1970s and also for producing funeral services. For my own photography there are better, albeit costlier scanning options available.