After 5 punctures in a little over 500Km I decided that I had had enough and finally made the switch to a solid rear tire, as all my punctures thus far had been on the rear tire. Before anyone asks, yes I did keep the pressure in check.
I am writing this in order to hopefully provide some useful information to anybody else considering making the switch. A lot of the things I had read in advance simply did not match up with reality.
Performance: Unchanged, if anything it feels slightly better, but that is almost guaranteed to be placebo.
Ride Quality: Definitely worse, but not bad. The Zero 9 has front and rear suspension which I now realize work quite well as the riding experie