Having shot three seasons of limited one year with a steel grip STI edge and the last two with an ATLAS nemesis. I can say without reservation that the Atlas will be a better gun in finish, trigger and balance. Is the atlas $1000 better? I still say yes.
I got set of these if you like original skinny feel of a 1911 thes are grippy https://www.railscales.us/collections/products/products/ascend-1911-scales
For SS I'm ordering ds permans because I'm used to a 2011 grip.
I can only speak to the egw lightened hammer kit, I installed it as is on a stock sti and gave a nice 3# pull right of the box. The kit came on a custom Bedell and atlas I have and both have sub 2# smooth as butter pulls. I’m thinking if these builders are happy with them, who am I to argue?
^^^ this, I have two, one match gun and one backup with the whole patriot kit, they are nearly identical in trigger and even after two seasons of use the match gun looks just as new as my backup. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk