Bias Honda fan here though I don't like their more recent offerings. I see them as truly an Engineering company first, car company 2nd. I like that.
I thought the Honda tranny issues were limited to the Automatics in their V6? Did they have issues with the I4 engines and/or manuals too? My brother had a 00 auto V6... IIRC, I thought the issue was the torque converter failing bc tranny gets too hot, burns fluid, leads to failure. My coworker had a '11 (?) TL but religiously maintains it and had the ATF changed (non car guy, full service by shops). I last rode with him with 110k and his tranny never had a failure. Anyhow, isn't tranny a non issue now? Just to add, that Alabama (?) made Accord sucked ass.