[one-man-bucket]

You're probably right that it improved, but it's still not nearly polished and robust enough (compared to gnome2).

You get the exact same window placement stuff by activating the Put compiz plugin (which is more customizable than unity).

Yes, gnome-do worked in unity in 11.10 once you disable the launcher bar shortcut.

I guess my point is that unity made everything much more sluggish and introduced crashes/buggy behaviour without really adding anything for a power user who doesn't use the mouse.