I have agree with this. I had no issues at all intonating my 4003s, or palm muting. The bridge is effectively just a tunomatic type affair, perhaps more fiddly than a BBOT or Badass, but not much. The dual truss rods are different, but OK once you understand what’s going on. My Ric was one of those basses that when I heard it I knew I just had to have that tone in my life and it was the nature of the pickups with their differing outputs that gave that final tone. My only gripes were some slapdash finishing details (I’ve had that with other basses too, including custom builds) and the weight of the all maple construction. It was the weight that eventually made me part company with it and if I’d opted for the walnut/maple construction, I might still have it today.