Sounds like you are as picky as me, I’m glad to hear you had the same experience as me with Joe. I did warn Joe going into it though and said to charge me for a show tank knowing my expectations.
Interesting on the euro brace, I obviously don’t have that issue being it’s not a peninsula. I will have to keep that in mind for my next tank, I really want to do a 10x3x2 peninsula for my next build
Go 4 foot wide. You'll be glad you did.