“Why don’t you just let the users decide? Just make it an option.”
Is this the menu system of Office for Windows 8?
This obviously makes M.G.’s point on first glance, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. WoW’s customizable interface (the same one that created this apparent mess) allowed me to create an essentially invisible UI that in turn let me see more of the viewport than Blizzard’s (or Apple’s) designers ever would.
Remember also that this guy probably knows exactly what each of these things does. It’s ugly, but that doesn’t mean it’s broken.