Cool. Soldbear's got a good point, by the way. One thing about old-fashioned auto-flashes, too, is that it doesn't hurt to see what you get at closer ranges, and get to know how it may actually perform, especially at closer ranges: sometimes they just give too much for the promised aperture when you get in too close. Once you get to know a unit's behavior, though, it's nice.
Especially as a usually-black-and-white-shooter, I tend to like to stop down at least a little from what flash wants to give,, anyway, (and keep the proportion of flash in a photo to a minimum, at that: usually this means a lower power setting and as long a shutter speed as I can get away with, ) so I'm generally pretty aware of this.
If you know what that little electric eye will try to give you, you can make good use of your aperture ring or dial on the fly.