Ironically, you're correcting everyone's understanding of the question but also seem uninterested in recognizing or answering it.
The question wasn't, "could you please list every feature on the Evo that's lacking or inferior on the Epic, dbpaddler?" The question was literally this: "is ther[e] any custom UI close to Sense UI?" In other words, is there a way to recreate all or part of the experience of using Sense?
Clearly, the cosmetic aspects of Sense are only one part of that experience. But the people who replied suggested the cosmetic approach because it's the first layer of recreation. If you were really interested in answering the question, you'd have gone on to augment those suggested surface enhancements with any deeper ones you had to offer.
Instead, you seem mostly interested in bashing the Epic and praising the Evo on an Epic forum, which is a fairly inappropriate thing to do and
also fails to answer the OP's question.
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That said, I like your list of Sense's strong points: It's straightforward, inclusive and ends with a helpful summary.
Sense has offered you more than surface-level attractiveness and you've conveyed that well.
The question wasn't "what apps and widgets in the market replace the enhancements in Sense?" It was just a question of what the features were. And exchange became integrated into stock android with 2.1 and if I'm not mistaken, enhanced in 2.2.
Also, I prefer certain functionality to be available stock so it's less crap I have to download to get that "basic" functionality that should be available in a stock smartphone OS. I don't want to download maildroid or k9 if I don't have to.