it's like getting a new car with paint runs and being told that the paint still protects the metal and it will be dirty and scratched eventually anyway.
It truly is a woods gun, now.
So I see the "problem" but it's not. My XDE had that and I just ignored it as a plastic thingy issue. I shot the gun wjthout a problem. It's a tool not a heart transplant.
This is why I own Rugers. Two weeks is.very long turn around with Ruger. Best CS I hav ever espeiienced over. The 30 years I have owned Colt, S&W, M&P, Remington,Beratta, Taurus, and for the past decade Ruger.