Show me a 7m that makes more power then a 4g63 on the same turbo (similarly equipped). I firmly believe the 4g63 is a better engine then the 7m. There countless evos making 650+whp through a 35r. I doubt your car will make 700 wheel on a 37r, but I would love to be proven wrong! On an evo, yes, on an undersquare 7m, good luck.
That being said, there is a lot more people *properly* equipping evos, and a whole lot of teenagers with hackjob 7m turbo kits expecting similar numbers. I don't believe the limits of the 7m have been tested due to improperly tuned and equipped setups.
As for the map ecu, I really liked it. Lots of tuning points, uber easy to use, and there are enough people out there with it to troubleshoot. I had no problem using mine. My motor gernaded tuned by a map ecu, but it wasn't because of the tuning. Most motors don't like it when the fuel pump goes out during a 4th gear pull! The biggest downfall of the map ecu is lack of timing control.
For example, if you are running 720cc injectors (that's what I ran with no probs). Under WOT the map ecu tricks the ecu to use the 61.1% (440/720=61.111%) throttle input. Ideally, you would want a 100% throttle timing map, and 61% throttle fuel map, but the map ecu doesn't differentiate between the two. The map ecu leaves more horsepower on the table with bigger injectors. It also has less and less control over timing maps making it easier for your motor motor to go boom boom.