[dr_zoidberg]

That problem wasn't apparent to the users, and that's probably why people disliked it.

In a personal note, with the ribbon interface more than once I've had to google where a certain functionality ended up, which I could easily find in the old UI.

[kermire]

There's a search bar for that in Office 2016.

[dr_zoidberg]

I hadn't noticed it, and (fortunately) it's been a while since I've needed to search for things!