Thanks all for the responses. I do have a follow-up question though about turning down the throttle endpoint. Since the ESC is digital, even when the throttle is set to linear, it's not really linear (more accurately it's a series of steps, like stairs.) The smaller the steps, the "smoother" the ESC feels. If I adjust the endpoint to 50% throttle, will the smoothness remain the same, or will it effectively cut it in half? I am guessing it will cut it in half, and make the throttle a little more "Choppy" kind of like the old analog ESCs were, but obviously not that bad. My assumption is based on the fact that the transmitter will be trying to "stretch" half of the ESC's throttle map over the entire range of the trigger pull.

Yep. No clue why I said transponder lol.