[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] R32_Rocky:
Well, having been on xda, and using HTC phones since the HTC Touch Pro 2, a total "Sense" lover, and been through the xda "wars" (sadly, with a "colonel" loosing the war); being a (kid's brain, trapped in an) old fart (body), let me give my (hopefully) more mature perspective on this Rom?

Many might argue, but I feel the HTC HD2 was their best phone, and the last version of Windows Mobile 6.5x was the last, BEST Sense based Rom! It was tremendously customizable, and easy to do them. Plus, that phone was totally amazing! Even though considered old & obsolete now, folks were even able to crack it and install quite a few versions of Android on it, Win Phone 8, and even multi-boot it! That phone is still being used today even. And both the phone, and its Sense Rom, was never the major PITA these last few iterations have been!

Yes, Apple screwed everyone (can you say FAPPLE?), and have caused major headaches as HTC had to scramble to make their phones comply to all the lawsuits. But for crying out loud! WTF is HTC been doing lately?! No more linkify, quick settings gone, lag lag lag everywhere (even in the new JB), toss in bloat, more bloat, and loggers, memory hogs, memory leaks (almost as bad as Windows 3.0!), screwed with WiFi, and a ton of others items! There is no excuse for this, at all!

And, it is NOT the dev's fault, not at all. It is the fault of HTC, and what was created by them, which is all that the dev's have to work with. And honestly? I bet our dev's put more time, sweat, and create the bug fixes HTC should have already made before their Rom was ever released to the public! Our dev's actually take a broken Rom, and create a miracle out of it! And, they don't even get PAID for their efforts - unlike the slackers getting paid at HTC! So yes, we may still be getting some fc's here and there, but that is a slight price for their progress making the Rom better, and not their fault due to what they have to work with from HTC - and which they have to completely learn it on their own, reverse engineer most of the garbage, never given a manual or explanation, and try to understand what that slacker programmer at HTC was originally intending to do. So guys like Mikey, Flex, Viper, Aamikan, Flipz, and others are pure and simple geniuses!

Now with that all said and done - sadly, unless a miracle happens, it appears to me that for now, JB is a total flop. Might even be a huge waste of our dev's time to try and fix it, let alone try to mod the hell out of it - just to gain back what we had (and most miss) in the ICS roms. Yes, a few new items added that might be somewhat exciting. But, missing quick settings, many widgets missing, or fewer choices (example, the people widget no longer has the 1 column widget, have to resize the 4x4 to a 4x2 so as not to waste an entire page), features missing (or buried deep), WiFi problems, and many more missing or broken - is it really worth it to just bring it up to what we had before? How can any TRUE advances be made with JB, when all the time being spent now is to just fix it, and put back what is missing? Perhaps ICS is the Android's "Vista", and JB is Android's Windows ME?

To me, having tried a number of JB roms out now, I almost feel crippled using them. So much missing, features I used a lot not there, not very convinient, even the new keyboard is awkward to me (finger memory, LOL). I literally feel like a horse with blinders on, or one arm tied behind my back!

But so as not to be misread! This again, is NOT any dev's fault!!!!!! It is all 100% the fault of HTC giving us garbage lately. You can make a work of art out of garbage, yes. But no matter what, it still is garbage, just made to look prettier :)