Comment 72 for bug 930148

I would love to hear what Mark has to say about the above comment I posted a few days ago and the very reasons and arguments why "There are many things you can do with dodge that you cannot do without it.". And why not removing autohide instead, which is definitely the useless and "dumb" behaviour. Or making it at least usable with intellihide.

The smart behaviour was the main distinction with Gnome Shell. Now that we'll also have to trigger everything the dumb way just to see which instances are open (with a laptop touchpad, have fun!) or the progress bars, and such, why stick to Unity if it becomes even less productive than GS is?
The other option would be to stick to Unity in 11.10, there's NOT ONE new feature in 12.04 worth losing dodging anyway.
Just because of this removal, it's the first time in 5 years using Ubuntu I'm stuck in a dead-end preventing me from upgrading. That's frustrating. Even more if I consider how seamless and bug-free dodging works for me.

Attracting 1 newcomer through one ear at the "precise" moment 2 long time faithful users leave out the other may not be the best way to keep the momentum on a product.