Hawk
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1911's overrated?
Nope, just "rated".
Some suck; some are sublime.
It's a patent-expired design that works. Much like "Kleenex" and "Xerox" it's a generic term for something that once was trademarked.
Asking "Are 1911s overrated" is like asking "Are cars overrated?".
Everybody, his brother and the horse they rode in on is making a 1911:
SIG, Kimber, Colt, STI, SVI, Para, SA, Taurus, RIA, Nighthawk, Baer, Brown, Wilson, Rock River, S&W and, no doubt, a host of others.
How do you draw a valid conclusion from all those disparate manufacturers? Obviously, you don't.
"What do you think of 1911s?"
Could be easily rephrased as:
"What do you think of short-recoil linked-barrel handguns?"
And the answer you get would be equally enlightening and, it should be noted, utterly worthless.
I've had an STI 2011 and a RIA base model. Without getting into specifics, they aren't the same. But they would both qualify as "modern 1911 types".
Only on internet fora would one group an RIA base model with an STI Legend and declare them "the same" 'cause they're both 1911s.