all valid points.. but if you have nobody locally that you can trust to tune your honda, there are advantages in a fixed-state ECU.

Personally i'd rather have an ECU that was tuned by Spoon/J's/Feels etc than have any local tuner do some trial-and-error on MY motor.

Consider that spoon for example ONLY tunes N/A Honda motors yet your local tuner is used to doing WRX, Skylines, 180Sx etc.. so does he REALLY know how to look after your honda motor ?

so in essence, a fully tunable ECU is the best approach to take only if you have a cmpetant tuner. and you must reaslise fixed-state ECU's are not meant for ultimate power gains etc. they are a balanced tune of reliability, improved tourque nad the other features listed above - usually designed for track use NOT how-big-is-your-penis max HP gains.