[roenxi]

Any user who learned to use office between 1990 and 2007 is well served by having a familiar interface. Now sure, there is a case that these user's comfort should be jettisoned for the future of the project. There is also a case that software projects (commercial and open source) regularly 'fix' things that aren't broken because they get bored.

Change is not user friendly; it breaks tutorials, it weakens the support network, it risks good ideas getting lost.

Don't get me wrong, if they do change things I'll probably support it, but if they stick to what worked for 20 years then we should support that too.