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2slices
Good job on this, my new Ibis had a rigid'ish type of plastic guard for the DW link and fell off (held on with a tiny bit of adhesive tape) within I think 2 rides? Took an existing design from thingyverse and printed in ABS (very rigid) and been fine, though do fancy trying a flexible print.
On the shock front, read a bit of problems you were having, saw you did plenty of maths before going to coil. Personally haven't used a coil rear shock since about 2010 (an old Scott DH rig) had a few different DVO/Fox big can jobs and been happy enough. Got the new Ibis Ripmo over winter with the factory X2 on it (big can version), fecking love it. Have to mildy change the tune through the year vs temp changes, but just works brilliantly on that frame.
I tend to only spec fork/shock that have high and low speed compression adjustment, run the fork about spot on not too blowy, but will usually run the rear HSC wide open unless I'm on an all day 10-14 hour trail/backcountry/peat bog nightmare type of a day. Doesn't hang on anything, occasionally hit full travel a few times per ride.
I think the 2021/22 versions of the factory X2 have 'vvc' valving, not sure on the exact intricacies of it but does the job nice on a wild variety of terrain without having to fiddle with it multiple times per ride.
Used to use Cane creek double barrel donkies back on a turner 5 spot and a 6 pack, everyone else specced them with the coil shock of the day (2006-8) chasing minute improvements in small bump response (never that great has they had quite chunky solid plastic bushs with zerk grease ports on, that one ever topped up the grease with lol).