We wore crampons on our entire Kodiak trip this year, and I am a big fan. There is no substitute for being able to get a sure grip on a hillside, particularly when the going is steep and the vegetation is wet or has been frozen. After my last trip to Kodiak and the "Great slide of 2010" I wasn't taking any chances on traction in steep terrain. I have mostly used hillsound trail crampons with great success, though I have also used the stubai 6 points in the past as well. The hillsounds were easy to take on and off (not that I took them off much), and they stayed put on my boots allowing me awesome traction on both wet vegetation/snot grass as well as wet or moss covered rocks. I did notice that my feet felt a little sore, due to a change in the where the pressure points were because of the crampons, but this was with all day use heavy hiking with a lot of side hilling ..I didn't get blisters, but just noticed I was getting new callouses where I hadn't formed them before.
Luke did have the metal pull through on his one of his hillsounds part way thru our trip, necessitating a pretty hefty para cord repair. We examined our buddy's kahtoola micro spikes and it appears their rubber might be a little bit thicker, but they could be prone to the same problem...I didn't have any trouble with mine, but I weigh less than Luke does and also wasn't packing quite as heavy loads so that could account for the difference.