I went to the indoor range today and sure enough they had a DD H9 for demo.
I think
Pro
Grip is OK, angle lets it come on target like 1911.
Low bore and muzzle weight make it shoot "flat."
Con
Godawful trigger.
Maybe you encountered a bad one. I don't know. I haven't handled one yet, but I do own an original Hudson H9, and there is nothing wrong with the trigger on that gun. I know this new H9 is an almost complete redesign, but that redesign is a matter of specifications, tolerances, dimensions, and so on; the basic
design has not been altered in any way. The original H9, and this new Daniel Defense variant both have the same 1911-inspired, straight back-pull trigger. If the original was good (and I know it is on mine), it's hard to see how this could be that bad. So I have to think that some quality control defect is the likely culprit. But even if it's not, it's probably not a hard problem for a good gunsmith to fix, though I admit that would be a mark against a gun sold at this price point.
All in all, I have high hopes for the new version of the H9. This strikes me as a very similar to the Boberg XR9 -- a neat and innovative new design from a small, startup company, that in the end, simply didn't have the resources and capital reserves to design, engineer, debug, and manufacture the pistol in quantity, but which is then picked up by an established company that does have greater resources and capital reserves, and which can work out those bugs and bring a reliable gun to market. Bond Arms apparently solved most, if not all, of the XR9 issues, and continues to successfully market the gun today. I hope it will be so with Daniel Defense and the H9. I think the gun beautifully combines several of the most desirable features of the 1911 and the modern, striker-fired pistol which is now so dominant, and then on top of that manages to lower the bore axis as much as possible. The result, if done properly, should be a reliable, ergonomic, accurate pistol, with a great trigger, and the lowest possible bore axis, which should make faster follow-up shots easier to achieve successfully than almost any of its competitors.