What is the root issue at hand? Why are we straying away from the problem and into things surrounding it? This is why lots of threads in OT and other places get locked - we don't look at the root issue that it bowls down to, but rather love to make things personal and argue on semantics. When that happens, the discussion goes nowhere at all.
The issue, as I see it, is that everytime an upgrade happens, issues from the past aren't even considered. If they were, they need to be considered again.
AT'ers ALWAYS whine when an upgrade happens - why not just leave the user interface alone, or just offer themes going back to older versions? Like I said in a previous post, I love AT - we've got a great set of folks here that have some great discussions, or just kind of talk about anything at all, and that's what I love about it. When we get issues like the interface changing, it makes you wonder why they mess with it at all. Upgrade the backend if you want to, but leave our stuff just the way it is. Establish some standards, and stick to them.
It's like politics, even if we've seen what's happened in the past, we won't learn from it, and won't even consider planning for it in the future, let alone live happily in the present.