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Gee, thanks all for the lovely comments!
Now have about 60 miles on the Jones, and first thing to change will be to remove the tubes and go tubeless. The rims will be fine for that but the XR4s are a bit baggy so no convinced they'll seal, will keep an eye out for a nice pair of 29 tyres to replace them with that'll handle some winter XC action.
Otherwise, the ride quality is really great, especially with the eeWings on. Feels very sure-footed, and firm over chunky stuff (it is still rigid after all!) but very compliant over small chatter. So far it's everything I had hoped it'd be.
With all this dropper malarky going on, it's worth clarifying that I am not anti-dropper - I own a very nice BikeYoke one with a Wolftooth lever. If I measured my rides by speed down the trails then it'd be on the bike in a heartbeat. But I don't. I like my bikes to be as simple as possible, with as few parts to go wrong and ruin a ride as possible (hence singlespeed and rigid for so many years). A dropper adds complexity that I can more than happily live without, and if it saves a bit of weight too then even better!