FWIW:
Well, I'll play the "Devil's Advocate" here I guess, but in my experience my Ruger LC9 has been absolute excellent.
First I don't expect the LC9 to be a "target pistol", so I practice from 7 yards or less, and from that distance I have absolutely no problem keeping 'em all in the center mass of man sized target.
I keep reading how crappy the trigger on the LC9 is, but FOR ME, it's just fine. I like a heavy trigger pull for a pistol used as my self defense choice and carried in an iwb holster. The heavier trigger reduces the chances I'll shoot myself in the butt in a crisis when adrenalin would be raging but is not so heavy I can't be accurate with it using just a point and shoot style..
The 9MM pistol I carried iwb before I got my LC9 was a very nice HK P2000sk (V3), but the Ruger LC9 is smaller, slimmer, easier to carry concealed, and I prefer it to the sk now.
Pretty soon I will have my Boberg XR9-S, so I'll have another 9MM pistol to consider for concealed carry self defense.. Even if I decide to replace the LC9 with the Boberg (the Boberg is smaller) I won't sell it, it's just too good a pistol, in my estimation.
I think the Ruger LCP in 380cal. is excellent, and the performance and characteristics of it's big brother LC9 is excellent as well..
And, at almost 70 years old I don't find the heavy trigger of the LC9, or recoil to be a problem at all.
No offense, just making conversation.
Jesse