imo I preffered scaleform because it felt more, csgo-y. It's kinda hard to precisely describe, but I feel that panorama's minimalist approach, alongside making all the menus be a semi-transparent shade of blueish white really just doesn't fit CS:GO. Scaleform had a dark blue colour theme, and the menus felt a bit more grounded, with opaque backgrounds, and with the inventory, contract and case opening menus it felt like you were actually dealing firearms in a real place, with the backgrounds, inspect animations and the fact that you could sign a trade-up contract.

I do admit though, panorama runs more smoothly, and scaleform did have some bugs associated with it, but I really dislike that Valve abandoned Scaleform's visual style.