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My only confusion is how people get so confused over this, it's about as simple as it gets.

Flex rating is a property of the material the stick is made from. It's like looking at the load bearing weight of something made of bamboo or iron. Making smaller pieces of those things doesn't change that property. So doing mental gymnastics trying to do calculations about what a sticks flex rating will be after you take a couple of inches off is not a good way to think about things. It can lead to confusion. For example, if you take two Bauer Vapor sticks both 85 flex, but one comes stock at 60". and the other comes stock at 63". If you think of flex as changing, then if you take 3 inches off the second stick, depending on what rate of change you're using, it should be somewhere around 100 flex. So how is it the first stick is still an 85 flex but the second stick is now 100 flex? In reality, they're both the exact same, an 85 flex stick that's 60" tall. When one thinks of flex as immutable, things become simpler. We all generally have a preferred stick height, so we can think of that as immutable, to. So now when we look for the right stick flex for us, we simply look at what our current flex is, and choose higher or lower as desired instead of doing unnecessary calculations. But if we do want to change the length of our stick, it's simply a change in the amount of leverage we have.

Yup, I bought one a couple months ago, Covert QR5T with the W02 curve. Cut 5" off of it, so in theory its around the 80'ish flex range. I have been loving it. My other stick I was using before this was an Intermediate CCM JetSpeed FT3 Pro, 65flex, with one inch cut off of it. Wristers and snaps are great with the CCM, but as of late I was struggling with slapshots. After a game or two with the Warrior, I am loving the lower kick point vs the "hybrid" of the CCM. My shots are consistent with the Warrior, wrists, snaps and slaps.