the same old whining. If you don't like the new features, the blog clearly says you can choose not to use them, they provide backward compatibility.
You say this has been done before, what hasn't. You should live with the features for a while before jumping to immediately trashing them without even having used them.
Nothing is "new or unique" - and nobody wants that either. They want steady improvements without losing familiarity.
I think the fear is that eventually they won't let you turn it off. Google has a habit of doing this type of thing with Gmail (eg the new UI, and the new compose)
You say this has been done before, what hasn't. You should live with the features for a while before jumping to immediately trashing them without even having used them.
Nothing is "new or unique" - and nobody wants that either. They want steady improvements without losing familiarity.