Jackson Pro Series Josh Smith SL7 ET

This guitar hit every spec I wanted. It has the 27 inch scale, amazing pickups, comes stock with straplocks, locking tuners and an Evertune. The color is way more beautiful in person, the neck is actually darker than any photos would lead you to believe and I am immensely satisfied. The guitar is a perfect combination of modern specs and cool 1980s superstrat aesthetics.
The pickup configuration makes for a lot of variety with very limited controls. There are no push-pull knobs, the blade switch is only a 3 way, yet using the volume controls correctly allows you to even coil split the bridge pickup.
The Evertune bridge is extremely intuitive and if one has had to deal with a Floyd Rose-style bridge, this would feel like a walk in the park.
One issue I had on my particular guitar - which does not imply that this is an issue with the model - is that I experienced significant grounding issues. That is a quick fix for someone with some experience. That being said, this is a guitar priced at nearly 2k euro - thus, it was rather disappointing. That being said, once fixed, the guitar became absolutely jaw-dropping.

The guitar is great for what you are looking for with an instrument like this, downtuning with proper tone and stability. Pretty good QC overall, fretwork is good, no loose screws or anything, evertune with locking tuners means insane stability (it's not magic but you will not have to tune again during a single session)
It needed some trust rod adjustment out of the gate for lower tuning (drop G# on a 0.64) because they ship it with the standard tuning strings and it was setup for that.
Gets a 4/5 for features and quality because no stainless steel frets but thats ok for me considering it's a delight to play on it and the pickups are extremely good without giving that obnoxious scooped sound that screams metal and can't play anything else. Overall great purchase, no regrets whatsoever.