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I've found it to be a significant improvement over Lollipop (for some reason that was terribly laggy on my Nexus 5) and the battery life does seem better.
Nothing significantly improved otherwise. The Google Now on Tap may be useful at some point (hold down the main button on any screen and it will do a context sensitive search) but I may well end up turning it off.
You can access a System UI tuner which allows a few of the fine tuning items that CM has. Strangely hidden away though http://www.droid-life.com/2015/08/17/turn-on-system-ui-tuner-in-android-6-0-preview-3/
Rooting was a bit of a sod. Had to flash a custom kernel; although if you're already having to flash as it won't update OTA it should only be another 5 minutes of a job. http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-root-android-6-0-marshmallow-build-mra58k-nexus-5-6-7-9-nexus-player-1522653 Saying that, I found it a bit awkward to get a custom recovery installed after I flashed Marshmallow