"Light" triggers can gain you quicker accuracy improvements. You will get to the point where you will plateau and can't improve anymore. IMO they mask poor trigger pulls. Shoot a factory stock striker fired pistol and that will tell you tons about your trigger pull. Sadly most don't really want to know the truth. Jus sayin'
Interesting comparison to stock striker triggers. Will keep that in mind as I get back into shooting precision, particularly my bolt guns. I took a break from shooting my Rem 700, but only had the stock trigger until a little over a year ago. I had been shooting handguns and ARs in various classes and competition for over a decade and with stock triggers for the majority of that. USGI for ARs and stock Glock triggers. I went to Geissele for my ARs in the past few years and upgraded trigger for my Glock around the same time with my Gucci Glocks. I also have a CZ Shadow with a very crisp SA trigger, but I had to get used to shooting the longer and heavier DA trigger. Overall, I think the key there was that I used to spend a lot of time on working on my handgun trigger manipulation and a lot of dry fire and ball and dummy drills live fire. I haven’t done much dry fire with my bolt action.
A trusted instructor and friend does advocate for shooting with stock triggers before going to the “high speed” triggers. I stuck with stock for such a long time for the mindset of learning to shoot stock stuff will be better off in the long run, as well as Geissele triggers are pricey.
I can say that I’m at least a decent shot with stock Glock and AR triggers. When my gunsmith set my trigger to about 1.5# after the upgrade, I got used to that. That and my friends on the mainland who shoot PRS and are pretty competitive, most of them shoot in the lighter end of the spectrum. I think all around the 1# range, so I stayed in that same general range.
I think some folks try lighter with gritty or mushy factory triggers to try to “fix” . The 2-stage TriggerTechs I’ve been shooting are pretty crisp.