Long rant but I agree with you... I think?
get a 4-barrel intake and go with an aftermarket 'throttle body' of your choice. Holly, Fitech, Edelbrock, whatever.
Im sorry to a lot of you TBI guys but what you get with todays aftermarket far exceeds anything your could have done in the early 2000s. I still have OEM TBIs but I dont think I would think twice about spending $1000 on a manifold and new FiTech or something to get laptop tunable performance if/when I upgrade to the point of out performing the factory settings.
I would need to hear from several people using those new efi's on a daily basis reliably before I would agree with this.
It seems that most people (at least that post about it) who have a new efi set up, barely drives the vehicle and is always still tuning it...