simple and effective. What more do you need.
Also, Coinotron have been very helpful when dealing with problems.
I like lots of stats, other than some multi pools, every mining pool I run across have been simple to use.
Really depends on pool op if the pool is helpful or not with problems, wemineXXX failed hardcore a few days ago, however, I have had similar issues with other pools and the ops were far better.
My first check is always “Is this pool close to or more than 50% of a network hash rate”, if yes then I don’t use the pool regardless of how good it is. Even if the pool op has good intentions its still a vulnerability for the blockchain, all it would take is one bad actor to grab a hold of coinotron and we would have to resort to ACP.