Power User definition

No.

That is called a 'normal user'.

People don't like change. When people see change they don't like it. It doesn't matter if it's a improvement or not. They will bitch, always. ALWAYS.

_ALWAYS_

_EVERY_SINGLE_TIME_.

Doesn't matter if they are 'power users' or not.

Justification doesn't enter into it. It's a emotional response, not a rational one. Rationalization happens later when somebody has to attempt to defend their statements. This is why people just throw out terms like 'workflow' and 'power user' which have no real definition and thus are difficult to discuss rationally.

Then when a person points out that they can still have their sloppy focus (or that it's a planned feature), or set number of virtual desktops, or tiling interface, or scripted interface, or arrange things how they like it etc etc.. just like they had it before they just ignore it completely and will complain about the same exact things later on. Because it's not really the problem they are having with it.

A smart person behaving rationally is going to be smart enough to simply say:

"I don't care if it's better or not. They changed things and I don't like it."

Which is, actually, very easy to understand. I run into this constantly with all sorts of things far beyond computer desktops. Cars, color of houses, the way streets are laid out, the way their diet coke tastes... I is one of the very significant reasons why Linux has never caught up on the desktop.

To which the obvious rational response is:

"That is fine. Just use CentOS, Redhat, (or Debian Stable) for your Gnome 2 desktop. You can continue to avoid any change until 2021 or so, at which time Redhat will stop supplying security updates"

Everybody can have their cake and eat it, too. Problem solved, or at least deferred for 7-8 years. This is one of the reasons we have things like CentOS or Debian Stable.

Just go and look back at what people are saying: Personal attacks against developers. Calling users 'babies'. Claiming that they are making interfaces that are for 'idiots' and such things when it's obvious that the newer system is significantly more flexible and powerful... It is just people lashing out on a emotional level. Like they are hurt or something.

On a slightly side note:

What I find amazing is that more people don't realize that being incredibly anally retentive about the positioning and arranging of windows among their desktops is a trained behavior (on a almost unconscious level) that is the result a significant design flaw in their desktop/window manager.