Is there enough of an advantage to the 5" barrel (vs 4.25) to wait to see if black ones are made? Hopefully without thumb safety and LCI.

It may take a few weeks for manufacturing production to get 6-8 varieties of V2 options out there. Patience grasshopper. There will definitely be a black, 5", no safety, no mag disconnect version available.

It appears the LCi is on the 5" models only. Now that begs the question if they are going to come out with a V2 CORE. I don't think they will be able to have that LCI because it would interfere with the RDS cut. I bet they know more about all this than we, and over the next six months, especially at SHOT, we'll get "the rest of the story".

I am planning to give it some time unless someone has a rationale for choosing the 4.25 that would make me change my mind.