not such a big deal that deserves this much attention really, I simply found iTunes 11 unacceptable and unusable, so I went back without any hesitation.
The way I want to experience my music isn't album grid view(useless because I don't play one album or one artist continuously repeatedly, never! and hey, that's me and I have no taste of music
), and it isn't totally coverflow neither, it's flexibility and efficiency, so I need the sidebar there constantly with all my playlists that I can just drag any songs into them or navigate with ONLY ONE click(thanks Apple for undefaulting the sidebar and make it slide in when needed, that's an improvement i reckon
), and I can sort my playlist however I want and the coverflow would be ordered the the same way the same time, but if I am not in the mood for coverflow I have my artwork at the left bottom corner, which is ESSENTIAL to have least one of them, that can be applied to shuffling playlists or using iTunes DJ, So after all, it feels like it is ME who owned the damn thing before 11, and
then it tried to own me and sorry, I am taken by me already.
oh, the search, it irritated me awfully, what was wrong with the simple powerful live search from previous versions? nothing for me, I got 100% what I am looking for all the time, by searching genres, artists, or whatever and if I don't know what I am looking, I don't search, so don't give me pop-ups Apple only because you want to make it look like iOS! It seems people figured out solution for this, but it's another flaw that's made default, unacceptable.
I don't need to go on with list I think, it's long enough for apple's previous standards if they have new ones now, and long for mine as well.
For me iTunes 11 is amateur and unprofessionally made, it only looked a little more sophisticated, so does Paris Hilton, who I would definitely walk away from.