All right, I got the new BLUE iStick in the mail with the 2 bending adapters and a bottle of Joyetch Strawberry Champagne elquid (hey, that's how they sell it @ EleafUS).
Was shopped securely, a Priority Bag within a Priority Bag and shipped within 2 business days. The Blue iStick came fully charged and blemish free; a 510 to ego adapter was also in the thin Eleaf simple box as well as their instruction manual. Of course, if you read the warranty, it states that if you use it with any non-Eleaf product, there is no warrantly. But that's how most manufacturers are working these days. I'm fine with it.
The bending adapters installed easily enough and I had no issues with the new Blue iStick. My original Black one with the thread/top damage due to the KFL clone incident, was a bit more fiddly. I kept getting atomizer short or no atomizer warnings. And if I screwed the atty all the way down, the iStick would read the resistance until I unscrewed it nearly entirely. After about an hour of un-installing and re-installing and adjusting the spring it finally installed correctly and I can now place any atty on it and the spring-loading function works as desired.
The resistance reads correctly with the bending adapter installed, unlike with the 510 to ego adapter that added .5 ohms the load and readout.
The bending part of the new adapter is nice and stiff, and the adapter itself is snug with no slippage. Attached atomizers now feel secured, non-loose or wobbly and makes the iStick feel like a whole, solid device.
The firing button on the new BLUE iStick has a bit of a rattle compared with my orginal in black. It has a bit of play to it but no issues firing it.
Even with the spring-loaded adapter installed, the iStick is smaller and lighter than the MVP, either incarnation. Overall, I am very pleased with my purchase from EleafUS and hope they last as long as my MVPs.