Unity may just be the end of Ubuntu for me

Unity is a good example of one thing, that being how utterly foolish it is to redesign someone's desktop technology and then foist it on everyone without making it an option, which people can elect or not, easily and without penalty. Otherwise it is a bad example of _everything_. I followed some instructions from the Ubuntu forums for removing it, and ended up with an unbootable system. Thanks, Unity developers, Ubuntu managers, and helpful Ubuntu forum contributors. I am having a very hard time dealing with this situation. I had been very pleased with the Ubuntu system, planning to assist friends in migrating to it from Windows, but now I think Ubuntu may be behaving a bit like the devil we so gleefully ran to it from. Curses! I have installed 10.04LTS on another drive and am essentially starting over, while still attempting to pursue fixing my 11.10 Unity-spoiled system. I don't know if anyone with Ubuntu/Canonical reads this (I can see them moving away from considering user impact or input at what is approaching the speed of light), but if so, please examine each element of a proposed change and ask "Is this better than what we have now?" There are many elements of the desktop management technology changed by Unity, but I do not prefer the new for any of them.