[angryamoeba]

I can't help but feel that those people were using Ubuntu expecting it to be something that it was never intended to be.

To be surprised at evolutionary changes which shed the aesthetic of competing distributions and introduce simpler, more consumer-oriented user experiences is to fundamentally misunderstand what Ubuntu Desktop has always been aiming for - Ubuntu hasn't stopped delivering on promises in recent days, it's started delivering on them.

[mich41]

It always seemed obvious that Ubuntu's promise was aesthetics and simple consumer-oriented experience, but for some reason Canonical marketed it as "Linux for human beings" instead of "Linux for simple consumer beings".

Some people fell victim to this and now they are running away.