Personally, I am very happy with the new Silverlight-based movie player. The Windows Media Player-based solution offered no OS X support and I was forced to use VirtualBox to watch NF movies.

Also, in my experience the new player loads much faster and fast forwarding and rewinding works much better. I have not noticed a decrease in quality, probably because my Internet connection wasn't fast enough in the first place to get the highest-quality streams.

I'm listening to a stream using Winamp 5 right now (di.fm rocks) which has been playing for several hours. Total memory usage: 2500kb

Of course, I have disabled modern skin support, visualizations, the media library, and video playback, ect. If you're THAT outraged about the new features, take the 5 minutes to disable them instead of taking the 15 minutes to complain about it. I'm sure there are plenty of people who are very happy with the new additions; it's normal for the feature set of an actively developed program to grow.

"tend" is not a scientific term. you forget that if background radiation was uniform, instead of just "tend"-ing to be uniform, you wouldn't be sitting on this planet here typing your comment basking in the morning sun.