While in life depending on merit i am usually with: the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many, but when it comes to tools, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
This is again about blender leads saying, aha we are smarter than the 99 percent out there and we are going to do something different. Well congrats. Now they are reaping it to my great regret because i want blender to thrive.
Also you Dont try to be smart with user interfaces that already work you try to be smart with functionality, guess priorities were all messed up.
when price asked about this in 2013 on cgsociety he got more than 20 pages of people telling him to fix the ui on the largest most respected cg forum at the time on the planet.
he went back and thought about it all the while being told by some of his colleagues to ignore these people!
he caved in for a while until later they realized that they need to do something about it.
i mean blender had right click instead of left click as its core function for crying outloud not even apple dared to do this! At least those guys gave you one button instead of two becauae they are apecial.
its not about me it is not about you, fact is this, you want blender to grow and reach to serve its core audience of users? Then fix this and stop beating around the bush, with all the funding coming their way now they have little excuse from the finiancial side.
it is going to be difficult and it will clash with existing users.