I have an 4" Stock Service XD .40 with over 12,000 rounds through it, its only about 6 months old, I run the gun hard, and am not always the best at cleaning it; I could do a lot better.... Its my everyday carry gun. I have never had any issues with parts breaking, FTF, and only 1 FTE (when someone else was shooting it when the FTE happened)..... I shoot IDPA, USPSA, IPSA, and Steel Challenge with it and actually do quite well! I have never had the previously mentioned problems with it... like I said, only one FTE since I've owned it..... It's very easy to do a complete tear down and reassembly.... and I had no problem getting parts from Springfield for the parts that have been known to go wrong with it..... I have the extra parts in my comp/range bag for a Just in case problem, but haven't needed them so far... As for the one handed issue of the grip safety in regards to Clearing & racking slide, its no problem what so ever.... No different than a 1911 style pistol..... you have to grip the gun to do it so the grip safety is depressed anyway..... again I have never had an issue with one handed "problem recovery" with either strong hand or weak hand.....
My experience with the XD has been outstanding and haven't met anyone that owns one to tell me different..... all the negatives I hear are from people that "knows a guy", "has a friend", or "heard from my gun shop", etc..... NOBODY i have met [that owns an XD or XDM] have anythign bad to say about the firearm!
I've noticed the XD, Glock, 1911, Sig, etc seems to be a Ford, Chevy, Mopar argument....
I can't say the same thing about any other gun I've owned.... It always seems that around 7000 to 8000 rounds fired, something seems to go wrong wheter its a worn or broken spring, revolver out of timing, etc.... there has always been something