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Have used cat cut and would always recommend cat cut over A frame. Much, much easier to get a taut pitch. You're wrong on the 'basically may as well use a Lanshan' from a weight perspective. @Bearlegged has nailed it. And if there's no bug pressure, you don't need a bug bivy either, so your entire shelter setup can feasibly be 280g + the weight of stakes which is, what, another 100-120g? So much lighter, SO much smaller.
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Anybody have experience with an A-frame bivvy arrangement? (references attached) I have a rubbish time sleeping in tents/outdoors anyway so i'd like to romanticise the whole thing by building a beautiful structure and waking up basically outside which is the actually good bit of bivvying. I'll only ever plan to be out in summer situations (which kind of makes the tarp void but go with me here).
My one hesitation is that once you add up all the costs & weight of tarp, poles, stakes, bivvy and maybe groundsheet is that you might as well just get a Lanshan 1 Pro. Overthinking it? or are tents just so good now that there isn't much benefit to tarping anymore?