Santa Cruz is also owned by PON now, they own a lot of stuff and do a lot of stuff well beyond just bikes and VW importing. Their bike portion of the business is huge for them in terms of importance but like a tiny little sliver of actual business despite is being so huge.

Go for some rides and get a feel. Then after some rides if needing to, maybe chop 5mm off every few rides until satisfied. I am sort of the same, coming from old stuff the bars were comically narrow and the stems comically long but after having so 780mm bars (uncut) it is excellent like so nice. It took a little adjustment but I was never really a huge enough mountain biker to have a memory but it certainly worked out well. I would also highly beyond highly recommend Ergon grips of any kind those are the best. I have the GS1s on my mountain bike and they are the best. If I wanted closer to round probably the GA2s would be the choice or GXRs for a pure round.