Dear Diary,
According to my precise and exact math, it's been 356,784,456,276,689 days since I rooted my still running Oppy V and gave her the Aphrodite/Harmonia love. I am pleased to report that everything still just works just swimmingly. Battery life, compatibility, and general performance consistency have continued to be completely top notch for me with this ROM.
Sure, her limitations are obvious compared to newer devices, and it's still great seeing the community tinker with ICS/JB with some fantastic results, but this ROM has never - not a single time - let me down for the uses I have for this device. My personal experience has been the best way that Android devices have ever worked for me was to give it the cleanest, least bloated, and most stable base possible - and it will fly like a leaf on the wind (within reason of older hardware, of course).
My nexus 7 gets most of my time/love/attention now, but this little phone has continued wonderful service for me, and I'm still trying to find a compelling reason (although it's becoming inevitable) to replace her out.
Thanks again, LeslieAnn, and indeed, the entire community for their efforts to take this device that - while isn't extravagant or 'best-in-class' by commercial means, is helping us be able to enjoy it as a complete gem of a value-based android device.
Y'all kinda rock.
-K