I have to agree with with Robyn on her point that the best thing that did come out with Andrew's suggestions was that " that Blender developers could no longer ignore the issue after Andrew started the conversation." And some of us old guard well since the introduction of 2.5 that is do like knowing were things are and have grown accustom to the tools being where they are. I feel that perhaps the one focus newcomers skip over learning is the keyboard shortcuts once they have become second nature the UI does not slow down your workflow at least that is my feeling on the subject. is there room for improvement of course but there needs to also be a balance to appease both new comers and old hats alike. 

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