They are actually more a head of the game than you think. User settings yes they fall short of what the sc can do with their advance trans tuning option, HOWEVER, the dsp has a custom trans tune option (not the user based one but one a CMR tuner would need to do for you) that will do a hell of a lot more than just shift firmness and shift schedule. When I get my laptop back that is what I will be doing, should have had it done already but the laptop with all my backups took a dump so I have to wait to get it back to do the new tune files.
Is there a program you can get to make modifications to the DSP's tune? If so that would be good. I plan on getting a custom dyno tune after heads and cam anyway, but it would be neat to get alittle more out of the DSP.