I bought a OnePlus One with Cyanogenmod on it. Then CM wrote two deals that ended up boning OnePlus out of India. Then CM rolled out that wretched mess with TrueCaller and I had to jailbreak and root my phone just to run Oxygen on it. That was a four day process and all of it sucked.

Then I borrowed a friend's Nexus 6 and rooted it and jailbroke it just to install Adblock and you know what? You have to do this terminal bullshit like every other week just to get updates and it's a total grind. Right now the thing is stuck in limbo because once you jailbreak a Nexus it's a royal pain to get it back to the land of the living.

I like having adblock. a lot. I like having non-melted-jelly-bean emojis. But OTAs are handy. And TrueCaller is a dog. It basically rendered my phone incapable of... making calls. Or answering them. Which may not be important to you, but matters to me.

Prepare to spend a lot of time simply getting to functionality. Custom ROMs are like Hackintoshes - yeah, you can roll with them but anybody who tells you the experience is identical to stock is lying to you.