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My fave is AutoStitch, because I'm lazy and it requires just about zero user input...
Yeah, that's one of the ones I used for a while and eventually discarded because of tiny but fatal flaws. In this case, it was because it (every once in a while) had a tendency to refuse to stitch certain perfectly good frames together, and its limited user inputs gave me no option to force specifc frames together and hand-tweak them.
When it worked, its results were good, though.
One of my biggest gripes with all of the packages is that hardly any of them give me the option to crop the frames as I'm working with them. For example, let's say a person is moving at the edge of the frame, and I want to crop him out on frame 4 but leave him in on frame 5, so that way he doesn't leave a blurry ghost image in the final panorama. In every package I've tried, I must pre-crop the pictures. And that's frequently a trial-and-error process, requiring me to go back and forth between programs and fully reprocess the panorama each time.
It would also be nice if there were one that would let me "Paint Out" someone who's moved between two frames. For instance, instead of cropping in the example above, just hand airbrushing a section where the source for the airbrush is the postprocessed (barrel-corrected and brightness corrected) version of frame 5. I would just find the ghost guy in the final panorama and choose whether I want frame 5 or frame 4 to show through where I paint (possibly by holding down ctrl and alt as I paint).
I've seen some packages that do similar things to the above, but they have OTHER fatal flaws. For instance, the ones that let me crop interactively don't let me ROTATE the individual frames, they assume I used a tripod. The ones that let me do the airbrushing trick don't do it within the software, they make me export it to a layered photoshop image and do the airbrushing there (which would be fine except those packages are simply bad at the overal panorama generation)...
etc. etc....
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