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Originally Posted by mlin
Several things:
1) I think we all understood pretty well.
2) You didn't clarify anything.
3) Saying that MR5 is the fastest and most stable is BS. There is no evidence to back this statement up. I use Juicy 8 and find it to be very fast and stable. To my knowledge there has yet to be a benchmark test performed on all of the latest releases to determine which is the fastest and stability is far too vague to make such a statement.
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Notice my caveat "according to my completely unscientific exposure to these boards." That is my way of admitting that I do not have any evidence outside of what I've read. And I did not include "fastest" in my description, simply "most stable." The mere fact that you reacted the way you did proves my point: how is someone who hasn't tried every ROM supposed to be able to distinguish between real performance improvements and fun customizations?
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4) All ROMs replace the stock ROM. If he wants a collaborative effort, he can use one of the collaborated ROMs.
5) Different people want different things. 
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Yes, but not all of them do so equally. That's really the problem in its entirety. Juicy and Silence and MM all do awesome things, but they each do some things better than others. Frankly if Silence is best at speed and MM is best at stability, there is no reason why we should have to choose "speed" or "stability," not when their collaboration could both a.) lessen their individual workloads and b.) produce an ultimately better core product.
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Originally Posted by x10guy
It is a bit interesting that it is the newer PPCgeeks who are the ones who are offering the dissenting opinion to the majority viewpoint....
I think it is fine to have differing opinions but in this case I would say that "experience counts".
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I could not disagree more strongly. How you should be reading this is that people who are new to the scene have no way of effectively determining which ROM to install without just trying all of them. That's silly. The fact is that the core OS, whether it be 6.1 or 6.5, can be tweaked to an optimal level of speed and stability. This baseline level of performance should be included in ALL ROMs, as it would significantly reduce the workload of any chefs and probably noticeably increase their performance. I'm all for 1000s of customizations; I do not want to see the amount of ROMs decrease. I'd just like to be able to switch from one ROM to the next and have all that changes be the customizations and programs installed, not the call quality or battery life. (Within reason--battery life is, after all, a function of usage patterns.)
Now, I happen to agree with both of you in that this will most likely not happen--the amount of coordination necessary is unlikely to take place without some sort of management. But that doesn't mean the idea is a bad one, and most of the criticisms leveled here seem to confuse "make a baseline ROM" with "ZOMG I <3 SOVIET RUSSIA."