Dude seriously this whole mentality of you cant have fun unless the traction control is a load off crap and is what is going to get more of these cars wrapped around more poles. I just came back from a ferrari/lambo driving event that i found on groupon and had a blast. And all the electronic nannies were on and doing their thing. In fact, I was too busy looking for the next apex to even care. For the vast majority of people purchasing this car this will be their first experience driving a rwd sports car (hell for some people on here this will be their first manual car).
I wouldn't be surprised the reason the vast majority of sports cars in the late 80's-90's were either discontinued or changed to fwd was because of the difficulty of the average driver to recover from oversteer (ie: old corollas and celicas). Not everyone is a weekend enthusiast and most of us grew up driving fwd platforms, myself included. So now that rwd has been made a little more user friendly the automotive world/press has decided to bash tcs/vcs etc, the same tcs/vsc that I believe has convinced many manufacturers to bring back the rwd sports car to joe schmoe public. The reason all these journalists hate the "nannies" is because they've been driving for years. And to be quite honest I would too if I had their kind of experience. But I don't, so I'm going to know my limits until I get better and move up to something more challenging. And yes, could someone still demolish their car with everything still on? Yes, but why making it even more likely to happen by turning them off, especially in the hands of someone inexperienced.
So if you are new to this car or any rwd car for that matter, go to the track and learn its limits. Get professional training, and have fun in a safe environment. Start with everything on, and
THEN work your way up to everything off.
Perfect example right here:
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7300