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@Dammit
Some thoughts on the brakes, in no particular order:
They are tricky to dial in, due to the single sided nature of the design, you have to balance the distance of the pad and therefore the lever pull distance (which is very limited with road drop levers), against the far from flat nature of the discs.
i.e. if you set them up so you get nice early positive bite from the lever, and then build power until you are fully locked up with some space between lever and bars then the disc will rub against the pads terribly.
It's possible to set them up so they don't, but it takes a lot of precise fettling- the front is now perfect, but the rear still has to have slightly too much lever-throw lest the pads rub on the disc.
If the discs were flat/straight, then this would not be an issue as the pads could be set much closer to the disc with no negative connotations.