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Kurai
Well that's a story!
After all this excellent advice, I packed up my bag last night with my current 'heavy' (2.2kg) tent and, well, it felt fine. And on further inspection I realised that even with this weight of tent my overall base weight is 5kg lighter that the base weight from my aborted attempt to walk the Gower coastline. That's my baseline so dropping 5 kilos is already such a win.
So tl;dr: I don't actually need a super light tent, and priority now is replacing my mildly rubbish Planet X tent with something that's suited to my use case without worrying too much about the weight of it. The Robens Starlight 1 (a rough copy of the Hilleberg Akto) looks like the current frontrunner now I've less anxious about weight - would much prefer to prioritise durability and stability, as good as the Lanshan looks for the weight of it.
And here's my packlist for anyone curious: https://lighterpack.com/r/gsk2jk