This thread is rather humorous.
It looks like Xecutor2 (the member, not the mod) is out of here... so it probably doesn't make a lick of difference... but did no one else catch the huge contridiction is his statements? Probably because he vailed it by insulting everyone.
1) He says the Xecutor has all the functionality we need ("still does"), so there was no need to design it to be flashable (or even removable).
2) Yet, later, he stated that there's always newer, better mods coming out... that "5 months from now there'll be a better one", etc. (I think he exact words were "boo hoo").
Wouldn't knowing #2 as fact dictate that #1 was a hugely BAD idea?!?
Now with MS stating that they're going to do everything they can to defeat the mods, it would seem that mods will be in a continual state of flux... MS shifts things to check for mods, and the mods will need to evolve to defeat the checks... it'll be a forever moving target.
Anybody that thinks that a flashable, modifiable, and ultimately removable modchip isn't absolutely essential down the road hasn't been paying attention.
From where I stand, the Xecuter team wasn't paying attention with version 1. With version 2, it looks like they woke up. Though they seem a bit peeved that MatriX was paying attention all along.