Gregg -
I have ~300 firearms. Most of them are historically significant in one way or another. I will not be modifying them with some wacky new technology, any more than I'd put a SatNav system, airbags, and backup camera into a '66 Shelby Cobra.
The firearms I carry for self defense however - they must be highly reliable, under all sorts of environmental conditions. The ones I select I pick primarily for engineering reasons - they are the ones with the simplest designs, the fewest moving parts, the largest clearances, and so on. They must always work. I would not ever carry a firearm for defensive purposes that relied up batteries and software, and that introduced additional points of failure.
There's no upside for me.