Man I love the green and purple birds! Those could be dangerous for me, though. They look like hard candies, and the last thing I need is to be eating paint chips
As for the 3-point- it is an oddball design, but I've grown used to setting up and using them, and they don't bug me at all. In some cases, I've had to rearrange the saddles in order to get the string radius at the bridge to better match that of the fingerboard (solves the case where the E&G are tool low, and the A&D are up in the nose bleed section).
The times when I've had all strings off (oiling boards, dressing/leveling/polishing frets, etc) I just use a strip of masking tape to keep the saddles from falling out, if I have to flip the bass over or move it. Having a string break at a gig might be an issue, but in the 25-or-so years I've been playing, that's probably happened twice.
Should you have to go thru all these antics setup a bass? no. YMMV... but these tricks have worked for me, and once its done I never really have to mess with the bridge again.
