I see, it seems AE just sent me 4 identical C203 shocks from Viking and said have at it. I won't be using them anyway, the entire front suspension kit is pretty much a wash for me at this point. Going to just resell it for cheap once I finish my own design. I'll be either using JRi modular shocks that are 21.7" extended or Penske 24.7" extended.
I agree, there's too much usage of many tie rod ends, from an engineering perspective it just adds more and more failure modes, more and more maintenance.
I'll edit this post and link my front SLA thread.