My smith cautioned against thick lugs as you are giving away some of your thread surface area of the barrel tenon to the lug. Don't know if that holds water, I am just repeating what I was told.
Not sure what he means by that? You just set the shoulder further forward, and still have the same amount of threaded barrel sticking out behind it.
It sounds like he is talking about just taking a take off barrel and screwing it in with no modifications? That ain't gonna work...
