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Those 'proper' ones with the curved link age are the bomb.
By re-doing the lower shock mount I'm able to rotate the bottom bracket and existing seattube forward to get a decent STA with the minimal bb drop that I want to my plan for the top tube is to leave a couple inches of the existing top tube there, braze a short piece of tubing across the way to that and then I can bring the new top tube onto that.
I think the downtube - bb junction will be easier. The seattube doesn't actually attach to the bb shell, there's the block that holds the lower swingarm pivot between them and it's got a flat front, the downtube butts up against that so cutting the old downtube back and shaping the new one to fit should be pretty simple.
M_V
https://m.pinkbike.com/news/now-that-was-a-bike-1995-gt-lts.html
Very curious to see how this develops. Minimal chopping up of the rear end makes sense. Curious to see how you solves the new tube to existing seat tube interface.