I spoke to someone with Ryan London and they agreed and said that that this case wasn’t meeting their quality standards and offered to send me a closed-bottom case which they said would provide a more quality fit.
It sounds like they may have been rushing to get this open-bottom model out as soon as they could.
Even the leather quality didn't feel as nice as their older open-bottom cases. It definitely felt rougher and dryer.
I took them up on their offer and we’ll see how the closed-bottom RL case is.