Two observations:
Most films of "my favorite" variety are discontinued. Is that because they're truly great, or because they're gone and it sucks? If they were awesome, why they disappeared and others remained? I can't tell because I just recently got back into B&W and haven't used any of the older emulsions. Tri-X is consistently described as "grainy" and "gritty". I suspect it used to be like that prior to 2006 reformulation. But Tri-X I get from B&H is finer grained than all Ilford/Ketmere ISO400 films, including Delta 400, which is always described by everyone as "fine t-grain" emulsion. Feels like film descriptions are being copy-pasted from the 90s, or perhaps people are using frozen old stock?