threads on any kind of forum veer wildly in different directions. Don't take it personal.
All of the Korean-made Newark Street guitars are really great value for money, and looking at body and neck shapes and other spec, it's 100% obvious that vintage Guilds were blueprinted to build these guitars. They're great playing guitars with nice necks and fretwork and beautiful cosmetics, and they consistently seem to be a cut above in quality than the typical Korean import guitar.
The one thing that is very odd about them is that while (at the time) FMIC went to the trouble of reproducing a pickup that hadn't been made for over 40 years, something went wrong, and they ended up producing a mismatched set with a lead pickup that has a lower resistance reading and resulting lower output than the rhythm pickup. This is something the vintage guitars never had, and doesn't make much sense.
It is the one little odd/negative thing about the current NS Starfire guitars. And it is not an unimportant piece of info about these guitars, and in that sense an answer to your question.
As for the stop tail version, they have just been released, and barely made it to guitar shops yet, so it's very unlikely anyone on the forum had a chance to play one yet.