"TMax certainly is not what many people think usable for high quality photography!" (Fritz Reckow)(posted 8118 days ago)I think this is a controversial one, at least in today's my point of view. I hated T-MAX and Delta until a few years ago. When I look at my pictures, while my favorite images tend to be exposed on PX and HP5+, there are certain set of favorite images whose high quality heavily relies on the TMX's property.
Many developers simply don't work well with TMX. Even with a good match, there aren't many papers that are good match with TMX. I tend to use paper I know well and manage the mismatch in different ways than simply choosing Ilford MGIV or similar papers. The real question is whether the transition from Panatomic X and D-76 to tabular grain films and newer developers worthwhile spending some effort to adopt.