N+1 Bling Hardtail?

is it going to be big slack enduro-bike-chaser for shredding the gnar on steep fast rocky trails,

That's generally my philosophy, with an added dose of trail schlepping.

I have a Kingdom Vendetta,  but they don't get made anymore.

If it broke tomorrow,  I'd go out and buy a Chilli dog straight away.

@WildHunter2009 I rate the Sedona very highly indeed! I should've done a NBD by now, but I've had various teething issues with the build (mostly) unrelated to the frame. 

TBH it does deliver on exactly what Steve claimed it would. Feeling light and playful, living up to his make easy trails feel fun idea. Loosely speaking, the front triangle is a Sherpa tube set with a high stack, but with a Switch9er rear end. The result is the most compliant hardtail I've ever owned, but with a short/tight rear end that feels sprightly when you sprint on it. I'm not the greatest at manuals, wheelies or bunny hops, but they're so much easier on the Sedona - the front wheel lifts SO easily and the rear will eagerly follow with just a minimal forward weight shift. 

Mine's running fast rolling XC tyres, because I think they accentuate it's inherent strengths and I've ended up with the suggested 50mm stem and 120mm travel fork after trying a slightly shorter stem and forks at 130mm - a bit more weight over the front wheel balances out the short chainstays, improving cornering. Same for the fractionally lower BB height with the shorter forks I think. 

It does everything from woodland laps, XC rides to gravel bike type rides and feels great everywhere. I've set it up for how I use it (and do have a Moxie too) but it would only take a change of tyres to make it way more capable on rougher and faster terrain. Actually, a Sedona with two sets of wheels/tyres is probably all the hardtail you need.

Negative points: The daft dropper routing is a faff, it made me very mad briefly as I don't need those few extra mm it affords and it's a bit of a process. But it was done within an hour, never to be touched again. Also, the dropper cable running through the down tube goes through a hole too small to add that cable silencer foam tube, so does occasionally rattle a bit.

Most annoying to me though is the bottom bracket has no drain hole (maybe no Stantons do?), so after just two wet muddy rides, one wash and a fortnight sitting unused, my new bottom bracket locked up and once freed, felt like a pepper grinder. When I took out the BB to replace it, enough water to fully submerge it poured out onto the floor! Water, both rain and hosepipe, had entered through the dropper cable hole and had no way out. I've now carefully added a DIY drain hole, plus the dropper cable port has a bit of silicon tubing in it and I've had no problems since.

^^^ I was all set to buy one of the Sedona launch frames in the nice sandy colour and then watched the video on Hardtail Party where even he admitted it was a faffy idea. It's a small thing really as you say, you should only ever need to do it once, but it was enough for me to go and find a second hand SolarisMAX instead (and also I'm impatient).