1. The polymer gun market is oversaturated.
That it is. Yet another striker fired 9mm subcompact? Yawn. (I actually would like to take a try at the Mossberg. Eventually.)
2. The XD Series is not the newest on the market
Nope. Middle of the pack somewhere.
3. Phantom issues of roll pins breaking
Anecdotal.
Easy to remediate. Easy to
check, as the owner ought to be tearing the slide down for cleaning periodically, anyway, right?
4. Various recalls in the XD-S Line
Eh? Only one that I recall.
5. Round Count for magazine (15+1 just won't do...)
Good enough for JMB and Dieudonné Saive. Oh, wait, they used 13+1. Never mind. Anyway, the 15 in my G19 seems endless to me.
(And, BTW, the 9mm subcompact XD has a
13 round capacity, vs. the G26's
ten. So there.)
6. No rappers sing about it.
7. No R. Lee Ermey Stamp Of Approval
8. All gun sales are in a slump
And that. ironic that things are in a slump after the Great 0bama Gun & Ammo Famine, rounds 1, 2, and 3.
Glock has done such a good job with marketing and releasing updated versions of the same model every 5 years or so that they bear the Gold Standard.
Sounds like Micro$oft Windows. "This time for sure Rocky""But that trick never works!"
Everyone who buys a Glock buys it because it's a Glock.
<shrug>. I like mine.
When I finally decided I wanted a 9mm (after years of .45 and .40 (which I continue to have and shoot)), I wanted
the most common, de-facto standard one I could find. Which was a Glock 19. Took a while, and some modifications, for me to finally warm to it.
I personally like the XD line better than Glock (especially XDM line) for price point, stainless steel mags, grip angle, disassembly (no effing with the takedown thingies).
None of which matters a huge amount to me, ironically. Except price point, of course. I's a po' boy.
But somehow Glocks have held their value better. Maybe because they're ubiquitous. All mags for any generation will at least fit in any other generation. They're in movies.
They work, parts are abundant and inexpensive, and they're dead easy to work on, and everyone makes stuff for Glocks.
Anyway,
Internet social media amplifies unsound opinion, and obsesses over details that don't matter.