I only rarely used the ETA feature on mine. It's useful when you have steep climbs that can make the front end wander and make your bike want to flip over backward, but that's really the only purpose I found for it.

Lowering the front is something that is very useful for those situations though....I use the fairly similar ECC5 system in my Z1 FR SL all the time now that I'm running a shorter stem on my Heckler.