> I'd consider the reception of a software product update to merely be "positive" if there was generally praise, basically no negativity at all, and people expressing that they are now significantly better off.
I've never known a company to pull that off. Even Apple, praised for their design sense, has, according to you, never had a "positive" release of any software.
> A lot of people are not happy about Australis, and justifiably so.
The same exact thing can be said about the previous UI.
> And we wouldn't be in this position had Mozilla listened to all of the past feedback they've been given
That's a fairly selfish attitude to take. What you are really saying is that you'd rather piss off many other Firefox users who don't share your opinion.
I've never known a company to pull that off. Even Apple, praised for their design sense, has, according to you, never had a "positive" release of any software.
> A lot of people are not happy about Australis, and justifiably so.
The same exact thing can be said about the previous UI.
> And we wouldn't be in this position had Mozilla listened to all of the past feedback they've been given
That's a fairly selfish attitude to take. What you are really saying is that you'd rather piss off many other Firefox users who don't share your opinion.