I was an early adopter of T9 typing on my Nokia back in the day. When I finally got a smartphone, I found a keyboard app that had T9 as an option and used that. When Swype first came out, I couldn’t believe that another typing system could actually beat the speed and ease of T9 typing.
I’ve always preferred to type in full words and sentences, and I’m a good speller, so most of the reasons other people don’t like swipe typing don’t apply to me.