That's one of the reasons I selected the model that included a heavy looking brace.
I've been driving them for a while now, and they're getting a little softer, but I still can't get any travel out of them when I lean on the bike. I don't even really feel them compressing at all when I hit bumps; then again, I KNOW that they're softer now than when they were brand new. I don't know if they're ever going to break in much more than they are now, but we'll see how they are as time goes on.
They corner much better at road speed than the originals, but the originals were more maneuverable at parking lot speed, even if they were floppy and soft on the main road. I could really avoid obstacles while just tooling around much easier with the original forks, as in approaching a parking spot; but the new forks are much less annoying when I'm actually going somewhere.