Well, loss of a 'sense of empowerment' *is* a valid point. "This system no longer feels like I am in control of it because GNOME 3 is so inflexible: instead it feels like it is controlling me" is a valid criticism -- a shorter way of saying exactly the same thing is that it disempowers you.
I happen to think that this is a bad thing, but of course it is necessarily subjective. Apple stuff takes almost every option away from you, and people seem to like it.
Posted Oct 1, 2012 13:56 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
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Not everybody likes it when Apple does it. Indeed, it's why some of us don't use OS X. If you happen to like the workflow that {Steve Jobs,$GNOME_DESIGNER} likes then you can live with the disempowerment, otherwise you go somewhere else.