Is a stainless CZ-75 really a stainless 85

there are some internal features added as well, like a slide stop

Don't forget the ambidextrous slide stop (which I generally find extraneous on a CZ.

If it were a tiny, unobtrusive thing like the M&P, no biggie. But it just kind of adds bulk.

Also, the CZ-85 has adjustable sights.

Only the safety is ambidextrous on the stainless 75.

CZ-85 has adjustable sights

according to CZ the CZ-85 combat does but not the CZ-85

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Very true.

some internal features added as well, like a slide stop

how is it different from the 75's stop, besides having the release on both sides?

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Good question.

The CZ-75B Stainless may be as close as we ever come to a stainless CZ-85 COMBAT but there are some significant differences.

As noted the CZ-85 (and COMBAT) have ambidextrous slide releases as well as the same ambidextrous safeties of the CZ-75B Stainless, the ambidextrous safeties of the SP-01 are internally different. The magazine release on the CZ-75B Stainless (and SP-01) are reversible, not so on the regular CZ-75/85 and COMBAT. The frame of some Stainless models is the same shape as the SA, not regular cz-75/85's. The new "limited edition" Stainless uses the regular frame shape.

Internally the CZ-85 COMBAT does not have the firing pin block, the lockwork is the same at the original CZ-75. Also the CZ-85 COMBAT is the only one to have adjustable sights.

Ideally a "new" CZ-85 COMBAT Stainless would have the SA frame shape, a reversible magazine release, and some new adjustable tritium sights.