New things always feel great but after having a set of bling rear shocks let all the oil out in the middle of WA, the only new shocks I could get were the stock shocks from the stealer in Newman.
That was almost 3 years ago - I haven't seen any reason to change them out. Still on the original stock springs FWIW (I do have Buds extended shackles though).
My stock front springs were r00ted by 25,000kM. Rears were OK, but wasn’t worth frigging around, had Ultimate do the whole lot and that was about 2013-ish. Transforms the car from a bouncy, swaying pig into a nice ride. Mine has heavy fronts and light rears with foam cell rebuildable shocks.