rock sliders

I'm new here been looking and researching raptors since last year, finally joined in May, and bought a 2019 SCrew last month. I came from the Toyota world and had a few Tacoma's I built for overlanding/crawling and plan to build my raptor similarly. I wanted to start with rock sliders to replace...

I've been looking at getting rock sliders custom made and welded to the frame, but I saw some comments about specific welding requirements for the high strength frames but was unable to find exactly what those were. My fabricator is a very experienced welder, but I wanted to see if there was...

So as much as I like the factory steps, I'd kind of like to have true rock sliders. Any thoughts/comments on the RPG Rock Sliders? https://www.rpgoffroad.com/product/steps-sliders/

Thoughts? https://www.rocky-road.com/ford-raptor-rock-sliders.html