Obviously there is somethign for Honda to gain (and for the consumer) when Honda can point out to people how long the service interval is on new Hondas, especially if they're comparing it against another brand.

If you want to wait until 7.5k, 8-9k or even 10k to change out your oil, fine, you'll save a little money on the extra oil change that I did. Your car's engine isn't going to "blow up" at 100k, 200k, 300k because of it. Nor will anyone else's engine because they changed the oil at 2k, 2.5k or 3k. The engine gets broken in well before the maintance minder/oil life monitor gets to 10% or 0%. An engine will continue to loosen up over it's ENTIRE life, that does NOT mean that the engine is "break in" over it's entire life.