I've had my hero since March, 2010 and being completely frustrated and getting sick of my stock heroc was the best thing ever. I decided, "Screw it, I don't care if I brick the thing, but 2.1 is not staying on this phone", so I'm incredibly happy I found xda a couple of months ago, because I'm running 2.3.4 and it's brought new life to my phone. It's crazy how much more stable this release is than the official 2.1 that was released to Sprint users, and a complete disgrace to the people who's job it was to support this phone before they decided it wasn't worth it.
Keep up the great work everybody, and looking forward to maybe an ics with working camera/mms at some point? Because the ROMs I've played with are pretty nice so far.