I am on a v1 and its my only bike. I ride everywhere on it – trail centres, local trails (ae, mabie, tweed valley etc), endures, spain, lakes, xc races, ten under type events and so on.
I have a set of 150mm Pikes on the front which are great. ok on really rough stuff it may get a bit overwhelmed but that’s not what its designed for or I bought it for. For 90+% of my riding its brilliant.
Ratboy types and some on here who are better riders will exploit its capabilities even more.