I’ve always loved ebony and maple, had some really poor experiences with rosewood boards and thought I didn’t like it. But I think it may be because they were on crummy guitars and it wasn’t the material per se. In the past year I’ve found rosewood boards I really dug on some lower end Ibanez semi-hollows, then took a chance and loved the rosewood board on the 594, then even ordered a strat with rosewood, which I’d never been open to before, and it plays great. All other things being equal, I’d still rather have ebony or maple, but rosewood doesn’t scare me off anymore. I currently have three electrics, an Ibanez with ebony, strat with rosewood, and tele with maple - all three feel and play great. The strat with RW probably the least great of the bunch, but it’s my favorite guitar of the bunch, so it’s not like the RW board is bothering me. All other things being equal, harder and smoother is my preference and ebony and maple are generally harder and smoother than rosewood. It’s just that all other things are never equal and lately I’ve had rosewood boards hard and smooth enough...
On acoustic, I’m a lot less picky, BTW, I’ve always been fine with rosewood and I’m fine with “richlite” or whatever other synthetic they’re using these days.