Since this is the "Industry Discussion" forum, you'll have a hard time finding people that get to choose their favorites. Purchasing rules tend to get in the way of just buying our favorites. Lowest bidder, existing state contracts (WSCA, etc), all get in the way.
We used Motorola for years, but their support structure fell apart locally. Got to the point where it would take days to a full week to get a Motorola RSS tech on site. While their radios were pretty good, we had to dump them due to the poor support. When we went looking for a replacement for the rapidly failing SmartNet system I had, it was narrowed down pretty easily. We have NPSPAC 800MHz channels, and Motorola would only sell us P25 systems. Even though (at the time) their MotoTrbo radios would do 800MHz, they had specifically blocked out the NPSPAC channels (my understanding is that this has changed). Anyway, Motorola wouldn't change, we had to go P25 or we'd have to relicense our entire system. Since we didn't need P25 and didn't have the budget for it, we went looking at others. Considered LTR, but finally settled on NXDN. Kenwood was much more responsive, radios would work on NPSPAC channels, etc. Chose them based on that.
Over the years we've had Kenwood, Motorola and EF Johnson. I've been happy with all of them in one way or another, but also all have had their frustrations.
I think if I was buying a personal radio for my own use, I'd probably go with Kenwood just because their support is so much better and more "small user" friendly.