Right, but they said from day one that SL is not about new features, it's about stability, speed, optimization, going full 64-bit etc. They've been stressing this from day one, what, a year ago. The fact that people still install it and go "OMG! It's almost totally like before!" puzzles me somewhat, how can anyone miss that info? Is the name not enough of a clue that this isn't an entirely new cat?
On the other hand, word has it (I haven't received my copy yet) that the missed the boat on the stability/speed/optimization part... lots of bugs, minor nuisances and no major speed boosts in the system itself, one might argue that SL fails to do what little it was supposed to do while not really delivering any new killer features... I've pretty much lost my faith in Apple being able to ship a rock solid initial release. I was prepared to write off the embarrassing debacle that was the Leopard launch as a temporary brain meltdown, but after following both Leopard and the iPhone software for a couple of years it's becoming evident that Apple have just about given up on the whole "it just works" thing, except in their marketing.