Merry Christmas! If you got a new bike it must be Cristmas, right? Comparing twenty year old technology to current stuff is mindboggling. remember when the Berlin wall fell and a lot of aerospace and defense contractors downsized? All those engineers had a lot of time to ride, and then a lot of time to tinker, and the bike world was suddenly awash in cool new stuff! The bike will continue to amaze you. Right off the bat you've moved from cup and cone headset and BB to sealed high speed bearings, and that alone will jack up the performance.
Sounds like you've got a good shop- bake them cookies!
Happy Mardi Gras!

Lizzy