ESET. Gives the user more power than Avast. I don't even think Avast allows the user to make a detected file excluded incase it's a false positive. You have to go into virus chest. With ESET, you can do it on detection. I'm a sucker for user control. Always will be. Avast isn't dumbed down, it just doesn't include exclusions on detection which is a big problem for me since I used unknown tools sometimes.
If an AV is dumbed down, I simply can't use it. I MUST have control over it, not the other way around. These are my files it's screwing with.