I am not familiar with either bike but going on what you said i would choose the transition for local shop support for potential warranty issues (even though i do all of my own mechanic work, i still consider it an advantage over DTC model).
Ah, I didn’t know that. Took a closer look. The transition comes with a 1 up bashguide, the commencal has none, so thats “1 up” for the transition. But commencal has mostly slx compared to deore on transition. Tough call, you won’t go wrong either way.the Transition would be bought directly from their website actually. I guess they do direct to consumer as well these days.