As I don't feel competent enough to comfortably handle a crosswind landing with just one of the two techniques, I tend to use a mixture (in the rare occurrences where the need arises for me). Slightly wing-down-cross-control but mostly crab in the final approach which ideally changes to more wing-down-cross-control and no crab during the flare and touchdown. Granted, not a perfect landing if I fail to complete the abovementioned transition before the airplane completes its transition from airborne to aardvark, but it has never come to an appreciable gear abuse let alone a runway excursion.
Cross-controlling all the way just feels awkward for me and doesn't suit my laziness. In addition, even with my humble experience I can second the assertion in one aviation book I've read: the wind mostly changes near the surface anyway, therefore even with the cross-control method one has to juggle with rudder and ailerons in the flare to get it right, so why labor earlier than necessary?