Hey Ruttly,
I didn't post this as a way of wagging my finger and saying "You have to do this!". It was just a few notes about stuff I'm trying in case it might be of interest to someone. I get it that a lot of what I do isn't necessary. One is reminded of the story of one of Buddha's disciples asking "Master, why does a dog lick his nuts?" to which Buddha replied "Because he can!"
If you are happy with the forks, leave them alone.
Having said that, you took a mediocre fork and made it worse. Cutting out 1/2 the travel, using dog squeeze for fork oil, and then complaining that the forks are crap, is a spectacular level of cluelessness. Kinda reminds me of a bud that couldn't understand why he had so many health problems, and when I pointed out that being 425 lbs wasn't a good long term plan, he went into a rant about that being irrelevant.
Again, whatever works for you.