To me, last time I looked. I don't remember how long ago that was. And the last time I looked, IC felt more native to me. As with everything, YMMV. I'm almost certainly out of date on all of that, it's probably been a couple of years since I seriously looked.
I'm not shilling for either side, I'm just trying to see the positives and negatives in favour of both sides, because both solutions have their upsides - just neither is right for me right now, as evidenced by the fact that both my XF licence and IC licence are not in public use. I was hoping that 2.3 might change that, maybe IC 5 will change that, but right now, neither's winning. (If I were going to shill for anyone seriously, it would be being the token cheer-leader for SMF for most of the last 15 years.)
Joel's never been shy of admitting that he thinks IC is a superior solution for the kinds of community he wants to run, though he has been asking questions trying to find out if XF has viable options, and has tried to be neutral in those conversations.
