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Yep.
I've been figuring this out for quite some time, while threadless tend to be stiffer and (possibly) lighter, I was also toying with the idea of a custom stem (in 1 1/8), however it does not allowed me to change the stem height quite easily.
It's also entirely possible to have a reasonably stiff bar/stem without restoring to threadless and oversized stem/bar, it's nice to have a little flex, but not enough to make it feel noodly, Velo Orange's steel stem is the stiffest one I've tried so far, sprinting out of the saddle is much easier without feeling the bar flex left and right.
Being able to change the height is of great advantage as the bike will be used for all sort of application, I can drop the stem a bit on club ride, or raise it for long audax ride, have been doing that already on my old bike.