They wow you with eye candy and showing how easy it is to move windows around, and draw random lines, and zoom in on photographs. Who is spending all their time doing these tasks? Show me the same interface with someone doing real work, like coding/writing documents, or touching up artwork, or working with spreadsheets - the stuff we spend 99.9% of our time doing. Methinks the new GUI would show many many weaknesses.

It'll only be good if the audience is armed.

Nope - it only shows that you overvalued the item in the first place.

DRM promised to do all this to you and more. And yet, you purchased DRM-protected content? Hardly a nightmare, more of a told-you-so. Please, everyone, when content is only available DRM-protected, pirate it instead. This is the only way to discourage these companies from abusing us.