I like the way it is designed. It prevents people from accidentally resting their thumbs on the slide stop and preventing the slide from holding open on an empty chamber. Racking the slide isn't a big issue, at least for me because in order to reach the slide stop i need to break my grip anyways. There's another, less known way to release the slide while inserting a new magazine, at least on the M&P and Beretta 92fs. If you insert the new full mag with a good solid thrust and on the right angle you can get the slide to automatically release on its own. If you can nail that movement down and make it work for you consistently its a lot quicker then both other methods. Anybody who watched the Magpul Dynamic Handgun DVDs will know what I'm talking about.