I think this is a pretty good summation
Seriously, if you are interested in the 1911 I say get one and start garnering experience that helps you form your own opinions. And something that costs $4k-$8k is not where you are going to start out at anyway, you didn't learn to drive in an AMG Black.
I made it far enough into the podcast to hear them all acknowledge that the Ruger is decent, that was all my confirmation bias needed (I recently bought three of them). Not saying they are infallible, but I think the failures are over reported, why would people post that they shot their gun and it did? Even after shooting them for decades I was able to spook myself a little about getting a 9mm, but now I have two of them and they both are chugging right along. I think they each (both SR1911s, one LWC 4.25" and the other the 5" Target) failed to extract once, once was with White Box Winchester that people consider to be lame, and once was with one of my reloads with a casing of unknown brand (I forgot to check).
You just listened to very knowledgeable guys who have made careers out of tweaking every possible bit of performance out of the thing and are understandably proud of their accomplishments, knowledge and abilities, and they charge accordingly.
ETA: The did also acknowledge that is not hard to get them to run with more normal bullet shapes, and only the most weird ones present the most challenge.