I think its mostly that people don't take the time to learn the program. Every program functions differently, and Blender is no exception. You can speed through tasks that in other programs would take double, even triple the time, because blender's shortcut system is very well designed and everything has a shortcut. The thing I like about the toolbar is that I could setup a modeling toolbar, and not have to move my hands across and around the keyboard to use certain functions, or even worse go into a submenu to find a tool (python perhaps) I can assign it and then click it. Hope this and the improved user interface make it to the next version. Brian