My 20th Anniversary Roadster build has front and rear sway bars. The ride is fine. For my street driving I'm pretty confident I don't need them. But they came with the Anniversary package so installed them. Sway bars shouldn't negatively affect ride quality if set up properly, and in my experience what FF supplies works fine. Cutting the rod ends isn't difficult. Did them with a hack saw and cleaned up on a stationery disk sander. Yes they're hard and takes a little patience. But no big deal. Just went through that again with the Coupe build because I have them on it was well.