LOL. Good ole vlad. All of your complaints about LIVE have nothing to do with the service and everything to do with the developers.
- Dedicated servers are available for many first and third party 360 games. It is up to developers and their design decisions.
- Auto updating occurs on the 360 as well.
- Halo 3 has a mechanism for modifying maps and rolling out different gametypes to choose from. It is a little limited but I am quite sure console developers are quickly heading towards allowing user created content to flow, not code changing mods, but other customized content. Most code changing mods available for PC are absolute shit anyway. The couple that are good usually garner a userbase in the thousands. Not really enough for MS to worry about as of yet.
- Lag is rarely an issue for me.
Every single game on the 360 has a unified feature set provided by MS. Can you say the same thing about PC gaming? Perhaps that isn't important to you?