The Unrivaled buffer is pretty sweet. It's kinda weird going from all my gutted and plastic buffered guns to the UT setup. The lightweight conventional buffers all have a resonance to them as they go into battery. I've never had any bolt bounce issues, but the way they feel makes you think there is some rebound. The UT just shuts like a bank vault with no further harmonics. I'd be lying if I said there was a huge performance advantage, but when you're fine tuning things all upgrades are made in small increments.
I bet if you get everything set up and running right and get a few thousand rounds on it you may decide a secondary conventionally weighted system may be redundant. Time will tell I suppose.
If you're having Craddock do the barrel I'd highly recommend an intermediate gas system on a 16". The difference is night and day over a mid, worth at least as much in the recoil reduction department as a low mass system. Put them together and you'll be blown away if this is your first go at a competition type setup. Supremely reliable too, none of the concerns a RLGS 16" has. Well respected guys like
@MSTN have great things to say about ILGS and not just in gamer guns.
The AFAB will leave a lot on the table compared to a serious brake. It'll definitely be a compromise. If I were you, and already considering a dual operating setup to swap between match/shtf use, and now going 16" so not pinning anything, I'd consider having two different muzzle devices as well. Maybe get a shtf flash hider that doesn't require specific orientation and something like the APA Answer or PA Hypertap that have a timing nut to make swapping easy.