if you consider a textbook as good, then it's *definitely* a textbook to consider. And your paper goes to my to read list.
When I heard about Zee, I think people said it was good but it didn't do canonical quantization, that it went directly with the path integral (if I remember correctly). So we students, always worried by the exams, left it apart.
BTW, once you have a solid grasp of the SM, is understanding Great Unification easier than the extension of SM with SUSY?