"And just to be clear, under stress, I can see the trigger being pulled at the wrong time allowing the hammer to follow the slide home at best or the gun firing at worst"
.....can't happen...there is a small part called the disconnector which prevents that very thing from happening... Hold the trigger back when dropping the slide and nothing will happen until the trigger is released and it resets...
It's just the same when one fires the gun...the trigger is still to the rear when the slide finishes cycling...
Some of my triggers are in the 3-3.5# range... I never drop the slide with any 1911 empty except during a match when it is basically required. The 4-6 times it has to be done in one day isn't going to kill anything...that and it is only the REALLY light trigger jobs that don't have very much engagement surface that are effected. Simple solution is just ease the slide down with ones off hand...no bad habits to pick up...
