I keep trying Yeoman every couple of versions but so far, it breaks A LOT. It (used?) to set things up in a way that was hard to move to it another backend like rails. Oh, and it breaks a lot.
So I still do most things the old school way. Then I'm done and writing code instead of trying to figure out why Yeoman is broken or the app it generates isn't loading.
That has been my experience too. But to be fair, half the breakages was Grunt, half was Yeoman. Then I figured that the tools I use (coffe, jade, stylus, Flask) all support live-reloading anyway so Yeoman was not useful for me. A simple 20 line bash/powershell script was enough.
Same here. I was going to use it for a recent Angular project, but was greeted with such an enormous list of warnings that I wasn't sure if my project was configured properly and didn't have time to investigate. So far I prefer initializing projects with Compass, then doing the rest manually. Open to checking this out again eventually, but I need more straightforward and reliable results.
So I still do most things the old school way. Then I'm done and writing code instead of trying to figure out why Yeoman is broken or the app it generates isn't loading.