Hello FrankieV,
Sorry I was just sending a link to this topic to someone and have only just seen your replies, thank you.
I’ve decided to go ahead with root motion for my game despite the concerns, as an ex-animator the look is more important to me at the moment 
Hopefully if I ever finish it root motion will be properly supported by then, worst case is that I’ll need to re-do the anim graph and add all the hacky stuff to prevent foot sliding!
Cheers.