Goaround737 has summer it up. By 1500 hours just about everyone is the same. Some things I was told from instructors at former intergrated schools are as follow,
The argument that the airlines like intergrated students cause they you are a known product is nosense. This is just to convince you that you won't get a job if you go modular.
You will get bad habits if you go modular and airlines don't like it. Another ridiculous statement made by schools to scare you into integrated.
All those people who went bush flying in Africa or instructing must be so full of bad habits they will never get airline jobs!