alk wroteI have never liked cyanogen, never felt like it is a huge departure from the vanilla android version, it certainly has some extra options, but that is all, prefer paranoid, they are more creative and less buggy. And after the incident in India between oneplus and micromax, the not liking turned more into hate, this is the second time cyanogen plays company games, first time being when the co-founder join samsung and cyanogen support was biased towards a company - the remnants are still felt till now, and now they promised, no more, signed deals with 2 companies to provide official and sole support for both companies on same grounds...
while many custom roms are based on cyanogen, it is not the only one there, there is the AOKP, paranoid and Liquid smooth, all based on AOSP - as opposed to cyanogen base, and all have teams.
I completely agree!
I was answering the question of the OP!
But yes, I mostly ended up keeping paranoidandroid instead of cyanogenmod!
And I will most probably use OxygenOS rom (mainly paranoid android work) instead of CM12S unless cyanogen do something magical with their rom!
PA are far more creative and invented some amazing stuff like hover, pie controls, halo and floating windows, etc...
Even google took pages from their book!