If light weight is your sole criterion, then I suppose it is an improvement. Some of us prefer steel for its aesthetics. Many of the newer Brownings look too racy for me as well, and incorporate plastic in places I'd rather not have it, but I'm a fussy old fart with archaic notions about how things should look and be made. A lot of excellent Eupopean rifles have the same "problem" in my view.
You buy what makes you happy.
Well-said, and ditto FWIW..
