Well, first off to the person who blasted me up at the top...
I have been in SL for about two years. When Viewer 2 came out, I tried it. It was ungodly horrible. I went to Emerald, then Phoenix, etc., and got spoiled on their viewers. These were people that actually got what a good interface should look like, so I stayed with them as long as I possibly could. I kept hearing news saying that "You have to use viewer 2 after mesh comes out" and this made me cringe. I tried Viewer 2 again. I tried Phoenix Firestorm. I even tried Dolphin. Even with online tutorials on how to make viewer 2 look like viewer one, I still hated it, and went back to Phoenix.
Now that I 'have' to use Viewer 2, I find myself getting angrier every time I log on. I will try to play as best as I can, but after a few minutes it's like playing some kind of horrible version of the game, and I find myself logging off in disgust.
I will try to stick with it as long as I possibly can, but unless someone can come out with a better 3rd party viewer, I will be done with SL. I know several others who think the same. And it's a shame, because SL has always been the best.