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Another very satisfied P2M user here. I have 3, a 2nd gen classic, a road type S and a track type S. The classic has approaching 15k km and has been faultless only requiring a half dozen or so battery changes. The other two are much newer but both still have over 3k km each, again without a single hicup. All have been used in all weathers, the track one is on my fixed road trainer. Given how much bad press there is about Stages, I think the small premium for a P2M is absolutely worth it.
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I am literally buying a PM to get more data on Strava, I am target market.
I understand that Stages is a bit of a bastard thing, and the figures they spit out aren't a perfect mapping of irl power, but if it's moderately reliable I don't see what everyone's issue is? I'm loathe to describe it as snobbishness, but if the data is close enough, I don't see why what works for the sportive tosser wouldn't work for anyone else.
All my cycling is on a pretty tight budget atm, and all I hear from P2M and Powertap is people sending them back for calibration, and if that's how my future looks I'd rather have one crank (and it's replacement) than send my spider or a rear wheel off...