I liked it too. It was't perfect, and I understand it had its limitations. But I suppose the fact that 1/2 the cast isn't dead or eliminated and you know there will be more movies makes up for it, because they at least have a chance to make things better.
I trust Singer as well. He has a thoughtful, intelligent style. He's good at setting up symbolism (the lecture about persecution of early Chirstians in X1, the tv documentary about the baby rats being helpless in the nest when the momma rat is away just before the mansion invasion), and knows how to make his scenes breath and have that element of magic.
And those pictures of him operating Cerebro were intelligently... geeky
But it's hard to beat Raimi or Jackson. Jackson, who insists on wearing shorts and growing a lazy-man's beard during filming of LOTR and taking over his family's kitchen and oven to make his early monster films, and Raimi who still has his 1972 Oldsmobile which he inserts into every movie he makes and keeps a stash of comics in the trunk... that's pretty geeky too. People like that are fun to have around to make movies