I though I had already chimed in into this all too important thread!
It seems not.
I have been using LEKI Triggers since the early 2000's...
In their first iteration it was a bit...too easy for the strap to get off but the poles itself were really good, IIRC it was a Ventrix hybrid Alu/Carbon model (printed on it "ULTRA" "HTC 6.0"), somewhere in here there is a thread form me about it being broken and an attempt to mend it, it worked for a while but then it broke down again. Not the pole fault, it had been a "user error" (my son, who had borrowed the poles for the day, "stepped" on the lower carbon half with the ski edge whilst making a turn...resulting in an almost clean cut); despite me offering LEKI to pay for a spare one if sent to me, they plainly refused. Claming the model was too old and out of production when the incident occured.
I still have the pair in my basement.
Nevertheless, at that time I had moved on and was using already another pair, full carbon with the Trigger S. Very light and comfortable.
Only thing, those were a tad too long for me (125 cm), according to some coach. Thus I went to a shop to have them shortened and...they basically destroyed both poles by crunching the (carbon) shaft in a vise ( not satisfied with the first one, they repeated the procedure with the second) and doing I don't know what they did to the handles and to the tips (both were broken and bent).These are now, broken handles and broken tips unrepaired and "mended shaft" (thanks to duct tape) my "Alpine Inline" poles. In the shop favour and needless to say, the gave me free of costs, a brand new pair, only a full alu version (but comparable in market value) in the 120 cm measure. Prior to that and to test if I felt comfortable using shorter poles (I had been using 125 cm poles for some 20 years at that point in time) I purchased a heavily used full alu world cup model (at a bargain price). This one now sports SL hand guards and I use it in SL gates.
Amidst those I found at a shop sale a full carbon 130 cm (I think) off piste model with traditional straps, that I use off piste only. Price was a bargain, colour was somehow matching my black/gold Gotamas, how could I resist?
Last pair I bought is again an hybrid Alu/Carbon (in 120 cm) with Trigger S, Venom model, I bought it pre-pandemic and prematurely, in a burst of optimism, as a prize in celebration of my passing the L2 exam (not PSIA, but it is equivalent to the PSIA L3). Since I failed the exam so many times, those stayed in the basement until this season, when I actually passed. So last Sunday they came off for the first time and tasted snow.
I must say that overall I am quite satisfied by LEKI poles performances. A bit less so of the gloves (I have two pairs both full leather, one WC fingers red/white with titanium knuckles guard and a WC red white mitten, again with titanium knuckles protection). They are not particularly warm and the five fingers seams have come opened in places...Still they offer the best integration with the poles.
Talking about the Venoms, I am quite satisfied by that hybrid model, it's increased weight (compared to the previous full alu model, but thinner) providing a sense of stability to the overall skiing feeling without having a noticeable effect while swinging. I need to use them a bit more, but I felt that the increased weight, if used correctIy might have been helping me stay more centered...
I noticed too , back in January, in some still taken out of a clip shot of me during an exercise where quite some effort was required while pole planting (jump turns) that the thinnier full alu models I was using then was bending under the pressure and that undermined, to my eye, the whole exercise "performance"(at least visually/aesthetically)...So lighter isn't always better...
Concluding, yes definitely pull the trigger on LEKI poles (and gloves) but choose with consideration which model for which use.