Its more than just a sale. I have been an avid Mac user and promoter of OS X and Macs for many years and own many Apple products. Just laptops alone I am on my third generation Apple computer. But this matter has put a bad taste in my mouth. I have already lost interest in being such an enthusiast and advocate because I found out that no one at Apple really listens nor values our opinions.
In all these years, before this particular change I have never really put it to the challenge because I never disliked a decision Apple made enough to call them, to write an issue, to hack my system at every update, to spend time writing about it, etc. I discovered firsthand that even when you have a legitimate, reasonable and popular request that would be easy to implement and you follow up on it diligently, Apple just does not care. You will just be ignored.
Never once has anyone from Apple even acknowledged that they are giving consideration to the idea of giving back a feature that was there when we purchased Leopard, but they just took away with no way out besides a hack which can break your system if you don't follow proper procedures.
If Apple cannot listen to us, for something so basic, "silly and stupid", I feel like part of what made it cool is gone. Even if you are right about something, you will probably just get stonewalled.
Not only does the survey in this thread speak volumes about popular opinion, the few people who debated for opaque menus lost the debate. But anyway that does not matter, we don't want to force translucent menus on them just as we did not want opaque menus forced on us. We just want an option out, even if its hidden, to be able to change the menus without a hack. Its really so little to ask and a no brainer to fix if only someone were listening...
