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Something else to laugh at in 15 years time alongside super-wide bars.
Wide bars made my 2004 vintage full suss ride even better. It became less snappy, more stable and a whole lot nicer to ride. The ability to have slackened the head angle by a degree would have made it better still.
It's not fashion, it's common sense - where are all those 130mm stemmed bikes now?
IMO do try both the headset and the offset bushes.
As both measures are reversable and fitting the old Headset/Bushes gets you back to the original setup if you don't like the results so there's no real catastrophic issues if it's not right so nowt to loose but a bit of money...
I got some offset bushes for my older DH bike and they have helped make it feel marginally more stable as it slackened the head angle and lowered the BB a tad, its an older frame though so 1-1/8" and hence I think I can only get a -1deg headset for it, I might do it as and when or just hold out and buy a newer frame down the line...
I've tried both, albeit on different bikes. I used the Works headset on a 5 Spot. IMO, made a massive difference to how it rode, made it less twitchy.
But the biggest difference was the bushings on the Zesty. These slackened it by about 1 1/2 degree and dropped the BB a touch. Coupled with a set of 160mm Lyriks it was awesome when I took it to the alps earlier this year. Long and stable at speed I (almost) kept up with my mates on their big bikes. Head angle was about 65.5 I reckon. Trouble is, for everyday riding it's just too slack so I've put my original bushings back in. 67-68 is pretty much the sweetspot for me for everyday trail riding, any slacker then it becomes a bit of a compromise.