I use a G19 Gen5 as my EDC right now, and I also owned a Gen4 in the past. Overall I prefer the Gen5, and its trigger too. The baseplate cutout never bothers me. For the grip finger grooves, I don't care either way. What does bother me though, and this is pretty much with all Glocks, as that my thumb gets too close to the slide release when shooting and it won't hold open on the last round. Just something I have to work around with my hand/finger size, I guess. I would not like to carry the G19X though because the grip is a G17 size and would print more.