You either love it or hate it. The tech crowd seems to be more towards a hate level due to certain expectations. Overall, >95% of readers using an Onswipe experience opt to keep it the default.
As far as certain expectations, I admit to that: I expect to read small blogs without my browser crashing and without jerky scrolling. If you think those expectations are only of the tech crowd, you are delusional.
If 95% of the readers on Wordpress.com opt to keep it that is most likely due to the fact that you don't provide an opt out. All you provide is the ability to temporarily turn it off for that one session, and that is at the bottom of the page, so if you can reach that without a crashing there is not much point to turn it off. Also, if you are in landscape mode the opt out is often not clickable because your software scrolls back to move it off the page, and clicks are not recognizes during that auto scrolling. Put an to out at the top, with an option to permanently opt out, and let's see if that claimed 95% holds up.
Months ago, you said several times that you would be fixing these problems with the Wordpress.com version of OnSwipe. We are still waiting.
This should be the mobile web developers creed, their Hippocratic Oath.
I've totally stopped opening links from extremetech on my ipad due to the unusability of the interface.
Stop arguing with your users. You're not going to convince us with numbers that we're wrong. We've used your app. It does in fact suck.
Take that to heart. Please.
Right, over the top expectations like caring more about the content of the site then choppy, unsatisfying animations. No wonder all these crappy iPad sites have been popping up if this is the attitude devs take. As an iPad owner, I hate them. Your desktop site rendered better and faster on an iPad then your iPad optimized version ever did.
Failing that, the minimum barely acceptable option would be to remember when I turn it off on each website.