Yes! I have tried to switch away multiple times, but as soon as I need to copy/paste or insert punctuation I head right back to Swype. It's not perfect (and the swpye accuracy seems to have gone downhill a bit), but I just can't adjust to anything else.

I've been on Swype since Beta and have attempted to switch to and try out other keyboards. I always find myself coming back to Swype. As you said, the innovator of the Swype to type genre. And the tiny tricks like swyping to add punctuation, copy/paste, etc just sets above the rest.

Swype, hands down. Every other keyboard has copied it's 'swipe to type' feature, but it's got additional tricks like swiping above the keyboard to insert a capital letter that just makes it more refined than others, IMHO. If Swiftkey did this, I'd go with that.