  Motivated by the recent suggestions that very massive pulsar (PSR J0952-0607)
and very light compact object (HESS J1731-347) exist, in this article, we
revisit the possibility of such objects being strange stars instead of the
standard hadronic neutron stars. We study the possible presence of local
anisotropy and how it affects the macroscopic properties of strange stars and
compare our results with the recent constraints presented in the literature. We
found that the presence of anisotropy increases the maximum mass, the radius of
the canonical star, and its tidal deformability for positive values of
$\lambda_{\rm BL}$ and the opposite for negative values. We also show that
although we cannot rule out the possibility of very compact objects being
standard hadronic neutron stars, strange stars easily fulfill most of the
observational constraints.
