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The handling can be fine but you'd probably want to avoid anything with less than a 69° head angle, and obviously you'd need to compensate for the reach of the bars, and there's a lot of time there spent looking a geometry charts.
Drop bar droppers are a thing! Pro make a lever so you can actuate it in the drops.
Drop bar hydraulic brifters!
Yeah, they're pretty ugly bar that headshok equipped on in the Cannondale thread.
I've spent quite a while looking at, and very nearly bought a SL2SS to do this to, but I've already got two cross bikes and I don't need another. There's a lot of faffing and ultimately what it is it achieving? It's taking a fun bike and making it less fun.
Dogs
drop bar MTBs are bad, because
the handling is fucked up unless the frame is specifically designed for drop bars
you cant use a dropper which is one of the only good modern MTB inventions
you cant use hydro disc brakes easily, ditto
shifting is a pain
they look ugly as sin, almost without exception
just get some flat bars you like. on one rips off every type under the sun for £30 or less. if it's good enough for the forum racers and razzer it's good enough for everyone.