At the end of the day, you can't please everybody. You can change 99% of the interface and people will bee-otch about the 1% that didn't change.
With all due respect Pat, this is not one of those things where no one agrees and you'll never please everyone. In the short time I have been here (maybe a couple of years) I have seen it go from sacrilegious to criticize BIAB GUI to commonplace. In that fairly short time many software companies have refined and redesigned and improved their interfaces immensely while we finally got violin to say violin instead of strings (and even then, not fixed everywhere!)
Just because a handful of us have learned how to navigate a cumbersome out-of-date interface does not lend any merit to the argument that it does not need big improvements!
But based on Peter's earlier response I get the feeling this user wish to improve the GUI is not really going anywhere so maybe it is time for the jokesters to get out their "beat a dead horse" animated GIFs for this thread!
