I finally caved and got one of these too!
Verizon Developer's Edition 32GB model off ebay, cost me only about £50 more than what the 16GB model can be had for over here and that's including shipping and import tax. Runs smooth as butter, came sim-unlocked and worked with my giffgaff sim just fine (I'll never have 4G on this phone but since gg doesn't even support it yet I really don't care).
I was running Cyanogenmod on my previous phone and I'm missing a few of its features, but I don't want to go flashing it just yet, not until I figure out which of the Motorola custom features are actually useful and which I can live without, as not all custom ROMs will retain those features. Moreover, the phone unfortunately came with 4.4.2 preinstalled which (according to the few posts I skim-read on xda-developers) means that rooting it will be more difficult, so I'm gonna have to stay on stock for the near future. It will be possible though, Developer Edition means the bootloader is easily unlocked whereas the other versions you have to buy an unlock code I understand. I do miss the customisability of Cyanogenmod though, especially the Trebuchet launcher. In particular I hate the stock Calendar widget - the last custom ROM I used had an option for the digital clock widget to display calendar items and that was so much better.
So far voice control hasn';t rocked my world. Motorola definitely have the right idea with the "always listening" concept - it really defeats the point having to pick up the phone to activate voice control. But the number of things I can do with is is pretty limited. It'll calculate a route to someplace and present directions onscreen, but I still haven't figure out how to get it to launch turn-by-turn navitation with a voice command - you have to reach over and tap the screen, and if you're driving and it forces you to do that you might as well pull over and do everything by touching the screen! About the only things it can do fully touch-free is call people (which my Nokia 3310 could do 15 years ago!) and send a text - although I'm not sure I would trust it to correctly recognise every single word in a text message as well as the name of the recipient without looking at the screen to confirm.
Active display is very good, but there's room for improvement. Currently it flashes the screen on every 5", but only when there are actual notifications to display, or when it feels the phone being moved. I'd like it if you could set it to be on all the time so you could leave the phone on your desk and glance at it to see the time at any moment. It's pretty customisable though, lets you restrict which applications get to use Active Display and has a "privacy mode" to hide the content of notifications. Also, I wish they allowed you to wake the phone just by double-tapping the screen like Nokia does, but that's not a must-have since active display comes on when you pick it up anyway. However, if it times out while you're holding it you have to push the power button, which is annoying! My final gripe with Active Display is that it seems you can only unlock directly to the latest notification. For instance, if you have an email and a text message waiting, and the email arrived last, you can only unlock directly into your email.
One thing that does absolutely rock though is the ability to unlock straight into camera by shaking the phone laterally! Really makes up for not having a physical shutter button like my DZ did! In fact it's the first time in 10 years that my daily driver wasn't an HTC phone and it takes some adjustment. Got a candybar-style Pocket PC in 2003ish, then a Universal in 2005 and finally my Desire Z 3years ago. The DZ felt fancier and more premium due to the metal accents and greater weight, but that's not to say the Moto X feels cheap. Well... except for the back: I had to get the white model and the back looks textured but is actually completely smooth. The black model which I handled in stores feels a lot nicer. The front is all smooth obsidian beauty, like an black ziggurat on a blasted alien world in which a universe-devouring artificial intelligence has been imprisoned.
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But some, like being able to tweak clockspeeds and set different CPU governors, are CM features which no launcher will give me. 
And I just think it is more future proof overall and of course 32GB of storage.....