"Want to doe something with Vertices? Hit the space bar select edit mesh tools, then select the vertices menu and voila all the vertices commands and the short cuts".

Prime example, 3 commands just to be able to get to the point of being able to edit verts - and only verts. There is absolutely no reason why line, vert and face selection cannot all be available for selection at the same time or any combination of them.

Anyway that's enough of ridiculing Blender, shall we model something!