Politely, no, and no. WVSig drew the juxtaposition for reasons previously stated; that he noted $1100 makes evident he was referring to the Heritage, which is the ideal example for the point he was making because of its price-to-performance ratio, being that it is in every way fundamentally a Valor. Its lower price brings into that much greater focus his point about diminishing returns next to the cost of semi-customs and full house.
You seem to think that acknowledging diminishing returns is a knock against the high end guns and it isn't; it's simply a metric noting that with 1911s, past a certain price point you have to pay more to squeeze small levels of increased reliability, longevity and aesthetics out of the platform.
And for the record, I've owned and shot 1911s from the lowest price point into the several thousands of dollars, and I've elected to stick with the high end ones because I like what they offer.
You did call into question the appropriateness of the connection, but based on a distortion of the original point.
Metrics can be quite personal and you're entitled to yours; I hardly think front strap checkering on a 1911 counts in the same league as barrel-to-bushing or linkage fit, or materials used for the frame and slide, or proper geometry of the ignition control parts. By comparison, a little extra grip up front seems to me welcomed but...secondary. I don't think slide top serrations are equal to a well-tuned trigger either.
WVSig referred to "better", and neither you nor I can say precisely what he meant because we're not him and it wasn't elaborated upon, but I'm quite confident that he was referring to overall aspects of 1911 shooting, of which most would acknowledge "performance" -- things like accuracy, tuning, reliability and longevity -- are the chief components. I'd wager the post was indeed "performance" specific.
This is not what I said at all. If one has to change what's been stated in order to respond to it, perhaps reconsider the response.
No one has said that full house doesn't have increased value versus assembly line guns -- it's indisputable they do. The question was, and has always been, compared to cost differences, the assigning or how much extra value the full house (and semis) have next to best quality assembly line offerings. And yes, the aficionados do know that you have to pay exponentially more to get to subtle levels of refinement and improvement; that is, great as a $6000 Volkmann (to stick with the high end items) may or may not be, it isn't in every salient shooting respect twice the firearm that a $3000 Guncrafter Industries is.
