What you running? and on what phone?
I've been a fan of HTC Sense since I got my phone, but like ability to have more customizability than stock and don't see why I should install another launcher and disable Sense when I can have a regularly updated ROM. HTC do fail at keeping their older phones updated with the latest Sense, though they don't really need it as any version of Sense is good and well polished.
I'm running stock Cyanogenmod 7.1 with customized theme, fresh out the oven. Got to love a 2 minute download of ~70Mb and 5 minutes to flash it, boot it and restore your apps