> For those who are relatively new to X, it is likely very obscure. People seem to be using desktop environments these days, and desktop environments come with their own terminal application. Those seeking out replacement terminals would probably stumble across xterm, but how many would actually try it?

It's really very configurable. My problem with mate-terminal and similar is that they don't often let me set a cursor color independent of the foreground color.

I like to code C projects in a single vim session running in a terminal; by having a bright green fast-blinking block cursor I can visually locate where my cursor is after reading code in a different split.

So, yeah, I use xterm (or uxterm) because of this single feature that I value of any other feature it might be missing.