Don't glorify the old UI; there's a reason we spent several years rewriting it. If the old one was so good, why go to so much trouble? Truth is, we blender developers have always disliked the old UI, we simply weren't able to fix it for a long time. Defending it as awesome beyond all reason just fans the trolls.

I just want to say: Slashdotters, WE TOLD YOU SO. We developers told you there were reasons we couldn't fix the UI, that it would take a huge refactor. Well, we've done the huge refactor. It took several years, but we've done it! Ha! Take that, trolls!

What do you mean by consistency? I mean the modeler UI is fairly consistent, though the way tools are accessed is a little convoluted (something that's being fixed as part of the event/ui refactor project). BTW, no blender dev really advocates replacing professional software with blender, that's not really it's purpose (yet ;) ). Joe