Personally i would love to have mode S at LACC. Would make life easier. The quicker the better IMHO.
As for the certain other program there is no reticence on my part to retrain, but what can we do when it keeps falling behind due to software probelms? The "get on and do it" attitude is there but it needs something to be used with and at the moment it is not where it needs to be for us to have confidence in it.