I totally agree with you... except for those games that I've never played. But it would be great if sony brought these to the psn so I could try it out.
Every DAMN time that I have to turn on my PS3 I have to make those updates. To be honest, I think the longest time we haven't needed to update this console with a firmware is... wel... now, with the psn down.
And it really haven't stopped piracy, like you said, the only ones that lose here are the costumers, that have to deal with a slow download (why, WHY it takes so long?). And everytime that this happens, I get a litlle pissed off.
But not enough. You see, there are games wich I bought JUST to play online, like Killzone 2 and Demon's Souls, and THAT makes me miss even more psn, because I bought Demon's Souls last month and I was loving its online.
But, something that would be great would be give us a full game without restrictions. I get a litlle mad just to think that after one month with any game that Sony gives us with the PSN+, we will lose it.
To make things worst, even Sony doesn't know when the PSN is coming back. Now that's a kick in the nuts, specially if all that you have left with your games and what kept you playing them was the MP.
But... well, we will have to wait.