WW I hear you!

Subconsciously, or due to manipulation, we accepted the English designs, the sidelock and the boxlock, as the standards in SXSs.

We forgot that these were developed for a static type of driven shooting, not active hunting, even though most of us will never shoot driven game. Thus we feel obliged to either look down on other designs or be apologetic if we happen to choose them. "It might not be a sidelock but it is X".

But some of us choose some designs precisely because they are NOT sidelocks. My next SXS, if I find one, will be a Robust Ideal. If for no other reason than the "I" sectioned rib which is the only rational rib design ever devised and secondly for the coil springs. I have been burned more than once by broken V springs and unstuck ribs.