It's decent and supports direct-color and all the obscure features of xterm of course, that others don't like querying and setting the color palette.

It doesn't support most(any?) of the bleeding-edge sequences for hyperlinks and underline styling.

It may have better input latency than xfce, but what are you running it on, a 486? Maybe for RPi, but—it has poor paint performance as well. It will flash if you try to do animation or scroll a complex screen. Bit of a toss up on the that front.

Anyway I find it useful for testing terminal sequences, but it's a tough sell as a daily driver. Things like tabs and a proper scrollbar are a minimum for me.