I don't root my phones, just not really interested in it to be honest. But I have a Galaxy S2 and I actually really like TW. While I don't think it looks as nice as stock ICS, I prefer using TW to other launchers. It's just smoother to me, and Samsung does really do a good job with acceleration on it it seems like, as TW just works quick and fast, more so than GoLauncher, ADW, etc. I had an Evo 3D previously, and Sense sucked; it was slow and laggy, definitely had to get a different launcher for that. So if the biggest thing getting in the way of buying or not buying the phone is TW, I wouldn't worry about it. I don't think it's "ugly" as others suggest. In fact everybody else would just say put another ROM on it and call it a day, but the majority of the potential buyers are like and me and don't root so TW does what it's supposed to do IMO and that is just work, and work fast.