I noticed the weight difference right away as well. It’s not huge, but definitely noticeable.

The sticks, overall, feel much better to me - not just the new grips, but the feel in moving them around, they’re a bit tighter with slightly more resistance and spring to them. I can consistently perform some moves that were a pain in ass for me to pull off in some games with my old deck.

No idea. Mine left the same facility at around the same time and it’s been tracking normally. Mine is going south, though, not north, so they were on different trucks I suppose.

I have the Jsaux matte protector on a matte LCD and it looks fine. I couldn’t really see any difference after putting it on.

I kept seeing it in stock all day yesterday, but whenever I tried to order, I would get the “One or more items in your cart is out of stock” error. My FOMO eventually wore off, and im happy with the standard 1TB now. I used the extran $$ to pick up a few games instead.