To quote Lewis Black - “How much ■■■■…do you NEED?” And now begins my latest, hopeless, “self-appointed” mission - pistol-design reform. Over the years, we’ve seen more and more “improvements” in pistol designs that I at least consider distractions, diversions, and detractions from what SHOULD be an emphasis on solid, basic, gun-handling skills, and stone-cold responsibility. Features such as grip-safeties, de-cockers, trigger-tabs, loaded- chamber indicators, magazine-disconnects, and action-locks I consider unnecessary, and to a degree have served to pansify and sissyfy the shooting public. De-cockers - unless used strictly as a safety device - I consider potentially dangerous - dependence on a mechanical device - versus using the tried-and-true manual method - I can do without! And the ONLY external safety device that belongs on ANY pistol - even striker-fired, as S & W offers - is a FRAME-mounted, POSITIVE THUMB-SAFETY. As I’ve mentioned before, looking at Springfield’s Model 2 “XD” was a bitter disappointment - the grip-safety, trigger-tab, and chamber indicator were still there - in a 20-year-old design that’s LONG needed a facelift. Another is Magnum Research’s “Baby Eagle” - an offspring of the Jericho “941” - this is DEFINITELY a design better-served with the 941’s thumb-safety. I wonder if these gunmakers actually engage in market research at all - the ongoing impression I get is, “Well, it’s for your own GOOD!” - or - "OOOH! Look at what’s new from us…now BUY IT, suckers! Maybe it’s just me, but they don’t seem to want to listen and learn. Call me a minimalist, a purist, or a crackpot, but I’m not the only one who wants some positive changes - I’ll continue to vote with my wallet, and you’d BETTER impress the “HELLouttame” before I reach into it!
Here is my solution:
Buy a Glock
Everything you need, nothing you don’t. As reliable and durable as it gets. All kinds of size and calibers and cartridges available, TREMENDOUS aftermarket support for holsters and sights and optics and mags…just buy a Glock. Then buy 5 more. 
Operation is as simple as it gets. Trigger, slide release, mag release, that’s it
Not as long as that grip-angle and annoying trigger-tab remain - eliminating the grip-safety on the 1911 would give some of us a better grip-fit, too, but nostalgia has too tight a hold.
Have you tried a S&W M&P 2.0 with the newer flat face trigger?
I guess that’s one of the catches, in order to get rid of the extra do-dad of a manual thumb safety, being drop safe on all the strikers pretty much requires some kind of a do-dad trigger thingymabob…dongle, hinge, tab, some kinda thing.
I never even feel it to know it’s there, consciously, but some of them do bother some peoples fingers.
It’s the DEPENDENCE on an external mechanical device to fire the gun that is really annoying - the same applies to a grip-safety. I have no confidence in either.
I intended to replace this one with the below lol
Like a thumb safety?
If you’re worried about the trigger safety dongle in a Glock or similar being unreliable…stop worrying. The S&W, Glock, VP9, PPQ, PDP, whatever, it’s going to be at least as reliable as whatever you are using now.
Promise, the trigger safety thing is not a reliability concern.
Even the infamous .45GAP. 
know what’s annoying? Not having a firearm.
Yeah that pretty much sucked