I've always stuck with factory triggers so I have no experience with replacing triggers or anything of the sort. I've only recently learned about practicing better trigger control, part of which is only letting the trigger out enough to hit the reset between shots, and I noticed that this pistol has a stupid long reset on it compared to my other weapons. I don't mind the initial trigger pull being a bit long for safety purposes but this reset is really bothering me. The little bit of reading I've done so far seems to imply that anything you do to shorten the reset will also shorten the overall pull. Is this true? Anyone who could shed some light on the subject would be appreciated. Glock evangelists please try to contain yourselves. If Glock would offer grip safety models, I'd be there. Same goes for grip safety haters. I know you hate them but I like them.

Go to Powder River Precision and read up on their trigger kits. They describe what each will do. I like mine. There is a noticeable improvement.

My XD .45 has a much better feel to the trigger/action after installing parts from PRP.  And, if you have any issues they are easy to contact and quick to help you out.

I won't go into the details of issues I had but they fixed their website, refunded my money and I was happy enough with their service that I ordered more parts from them for a second XD .45 a few weeks later.

Another vote for Powder River Precision, call them, tell them exactly what you want to accomplish and they will set you up. I have either full on trigger kits to just some parts from them in all my XD/M's. Also had them cut my slides for dots.

Well let's look at the root of the problem. Don't worry about the reset.

Since I've adopted that technique, my consistency and accuracy have improved significantly, at least with pistols. Give it a shot.

It's going to slow you down and cause you to think about the reset. You shouldn't be making a conscious decision to release the trigger.

In my short time training with it, it has already become almost second nature, but to each his own. Either way, I took the advice of some folks to give PRP a shout, sounds like they have an option worth trying.

03RN is correct, letting out the reset is a slow-fire technique that was taught for many years but is no longer best practice.  
Although it is something that will improve your accuracy if you have poor fundamentals, it is a long term bad habit that will cause you to shoot slowly and lead to poor performance when shooting at a realistic pace used in a self-defense or competition scenario.

Exactly this.