Thank you so much for the detailed response. I'm going to do some searches of what you've posted in the past on everything you outlined here. Again, much appreciated.

What I'm taking from this is that I shouldn't shy away from an XT2 moving forward. It's just of a matter of "taming" it by using it ...

I've had an XT for the last 2-years, after several years of a revolving door of ghosting Nav6 units. I like the XT. I create routes using Basecamp, MRA and inRoute. I don't use the Drive app for anything. I copy GPX route files from PC/Mac directly to the XT, either Internal Storage or the SD Card ...