>>Seems to me there is a large element of the 'don't like it because it is different' syndrome....
Nothing wrong with "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Even it it is broke, Familiarity has huge value- otherwise the QWERTY keyboard with its deliberately inefficient layout would have been replaced 20 times by now.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1