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Im using a Galaxy S4 as my daily driver. I know it lags, hiccup and slow loading times.

If you've used the A5 or A7, you would'nt say that. Touchwiz is wickedly fast in those 64bit devices. Samsung is trimming down touchwiz so the next update to S4 will hopefully fix the lag. :)

Ok I'll try to give examples from my own experience... I've had the S3 for a couple of years (a full year as a daily driver) and it did lag, stutter, and just generally snag on some occasions while using TW. I had to root my phone, tweak, and switch launchers before the "lag" was gone. Point is, while Touchwiz is ambitious, and "feature packed" it also makes simple operations seem less smooth due to the heavy resource hogging that all those TW features need. Examples of slow-down or "lag" that I experienced are minimal but noticeable with things like gallery (with many pictures), swiping pictures, scrolling all contacts top to bottom with a quick swipe up/down, home screen transitions with widgets, app drawer screen transitions with many pages in quick succession, and many other little examples that don't come to mind now but are noticeable when using every day. Now, it's NOWHERE near as bad as some Samsung haters will claim it is, since it's barely noticeable at times, and a mild annoyance at it's worst. It's still a generally "smooth" performance overall. However, when you use a different brand with a different IU side by side (with similar amount of apps, pics, widgets, etc.) or simply root the phone, delete most of the"S" apps, do some necessary customizing, and switch to a different launcher, it makes a difference, hence, Touchwiz IS to blame for some degree of "lag" or slow-down, or whatever you wanna call it. Hope that answers your question in an unbiased way. I like Samsung, and I hope they manage to trim it down a bit while keeping it as user friendly and intuitive as it has always been. Looking forward to the S6.

Hmm well yes Touchwiz is very ambitious, and I won't deny it can cause some lag, but my experience when I cloned my setup to a friends htc phone, (I think it was one x, same release year as sgs3) Once both phones had stuff bogging them down I didn't really feel any difference. That said, yes if you root and mod phones, remove things you personally consider bloat, then it will be faster, no disagreeing there, but at least to me, I rooted my sgs3, messed around, went meh and went back to standard, the different to me really felt minimal, though I will not deny that it can simply be that I don't find such things as annoying as others do. Knowing what goes on behind the scene I generally don't mind if there is a little lag loading gallery or certain apps, and I don't see any real stock vs stock difference. All that said, I just want to make it clear, that what I dislike is the whole "touchwiz lags!!!" screaming, where people clearly haven't actually used touchwiz for more then a few brief seconds or just watched video with "tests" and most of it is just sad to see people repeating stuff without actually giving it a thought or two. Though touchwiz clearly has come a long way since sgs3, on g5 lollipop feels much snappier, so it has definitely improved, but has never really felt as a problem, at least to me :)