I've carried 1911s most of my life.
The first one I bought as a full time carry gun was a Colt Officer's Model back in 1986, the second year after they were introduced and before all the bugs were worked out. I basically had to rebuild the gun to get it to run reliably.
The last one I bought was a Colt Defender, another compact, and that gun shot like a dream right out of the box. I've never had any kind of a malfunction with it no matter what ammo I'm shooting and have pretty much retired the Officer's Model since buying the Defender.
