Recently bling-ed out my XC ride with a Hixon SL bar/stem combo. Had a ritchey WCS stem and raceface Next SL bar. Both high end components, but the stem was a major PITA with it's T20 (not 25) bolts that were reverse-mounted so nearly impossible to get without a ratchet and T20 not found on most multitools, unlike T25. Then with the bar, it was shorter than I thought it'd be, something like 720 or 740 when I thought it'd be 760, so with that ending up much shorter than I expected, I wasn't happy with all of this. I ran this setup for two seasons, but recently upgraded with the Syncros bar, and I'm super-happy with it. It's meant for enduro, unlike the parts I had, much wider like modern bars, and 5g lighter than that previous combo. That ain't much weight saved obviously, but it's far more functional IMO. Far better strength, width, sweep, etc., all coming in slightly lighter. Not so bad when you figure I had to buy both a stem and a bar to fix this issue, and it looks exotic as heck. I really fretted over the reach (length) for days, going back and forth, but ended up nailing it perfect IMO.
Not many bikes have this, so it is very unique, but I found it to be very functional for my purpose. I'd rather have an "overbuilt" cockpit that is less likely to fail when pushing hard, even with XC. I'm high-expert when I race XC and this stuff gets pushed hard.
