To me the new interface looks interesting, but I rarely stay at that place for too long, jump into watching a movie, listening to music, or playing a game. So why care about the change. If it does make finding things easier then ok. The dashboard as it is now works and looks good enough, the new one looks more modern edged at casual then hardcore. But the abilities under the looks you seem to overlook. The ability to chat now with more than 1 at a time is a big deal, even picture sharing. Lets not forget the ability to copy and Game to the HD, that is a major plus for the Hardcore. Also don't forget that they will have the old style like dashboard availible from pressing the Xbox button, even from within games, major plus to be able check for new content or whatever.

Things that still need to be addressed is the hardware issues, not sure if the heating issues have been fixed yet (for me only had 1 failure since launch). But another major issue for M$ is their lack of thinking, where is the Hard Drive defragmentation program? There have been forum posts at Xbox.com that show the difference before and after a format with data restored. I personally have done one of those tests and saw a major improvement in dashboard/XBLA speed and less lockups.

If anything M$ need to lets users customize the dashboard more to their liking, what about a totally skinnable interface, with plugins, like RSS feeds, etc.