For me I' made sure my bike is equiped with this accessories list:
1. Heated grips will extend your riding season. I've put them on everybike I've owned for 30 years. Came with the Deluxe
2. Higher windshield, the one that came with mine was a joke.
3. Chrome luggage rack behind the rear seat, installed last week. Allows me to put any sort of duffle back there.
4. Center stand. Came with Deluxe.
5. Cruze Control came with Deluxe.
6. Powerport in left pocket.
7. Honda's own headsets/intercom. While old fashioned and not cheap, the wired headphone and intercom system on the GL works the best of any I've had. Its sound is good, and there are no batteries or failed bluetooth connections to mess with. I fear that the next generation Honda GL is going to go with a Bluetooth system. Maybe Honda will do it right, but I have had it with Bluetooth. I can conclude after three that Blutooth just plain sucks. My complaints: crappy compressed sound, wireless headsets that fail to charge because of poor build quality connections, failures from getting wet in a light rain, declining battery life with age (say 6 months!), and especially the too many times to count times I had to stop, and pull over to get the bluetooth headsets to recognize each other and/or sound source (GPS, radio, music player, phone etc). I frack-gin hate Bluetooth.