Lea: The Unity design process (and how you can play a part in it)

> 1. Programmers

Those has the power to change pretty much everything by writing an extension they don't even have to download and change the code itself.

> power users

There is no such thing. We had this discussion in the other gnome3 article nobody that was talking about "power user" could describe what a "power user" is other than a buzz word being used to say "I am special".

> 2. People who are just routinely upgrading to the Fedora/Ubuntu/etc. current release, and thus get new desktop environments as a byproduct, and aren't looking for any change in the UI

Conservative people shouldn't be using fast moving distros because change is part of the game here. There some distros that change less often and let you some time to adapt to said changes.