Many others? You and the mouse in your pocket? iOS 6 works fine on older iPhones and there is this thing called progress. You might want to look into it.
I, like many others, dislike most of the changes they've made with their software updates and kept my iOS 5.01.
Why is that the only way to share photos? Apple is not user friendly, they're control freaks. And I don't want to screw w setting up iCloud just to see some pictures. What a pain in the ass.