I want my SnowLeopard manual-save back in Lion.

To Mac OS X Lion Product Manager:
Here's a list of annoyances and frustrations re Lion autosave:
I save my work at conceptual checkpoints that make sense to me. When autosave keep saving my files my history gets dirty so quickly that revision history doesn't make sense to me anymore. It's more difficult to get back to a version where I can correlate to my checkpoint.
Frequently, I open 'Numbers' documents for what-if analysis without intension to save it at all. When autosave kicks in, it modifies the time signature of the document. Then every time before quitting, I have to "Revert to the original", or to create a duplicate and close the original; i.e., I have to do more thing that I don't used to do before. What happened to Apple's philosophy of non-intrusiveness? (BTW, full screen was nice :-)
When working on regular hard disk drives (not even mentioning network drives) autosave is just distraction and annoyance. It keeps bugging me every time it tries to save. When files get slightly larger (such iWork files) even SSD disk drive becomes annoying. (Don't get me wrong; I have 2011 17" MacBook Pro with fastest i7 processor.)
All machines that we do critical work has either battery or UPS. I have not witnessed Mac OS X crash more than once in two years. That said, what do we afraid of? Loosing what exactly? Paranoia, as we see in politics, should not be our motivation.
The reason I moved away from MS-Windows because it got more and more intrusive over time with the assumption that they need to design an operating system so easy even very naive persons can use it. There is thin line there, when you cross it you start annoying normal people. If you remember human intelligence bell-curve, normal people are the majority. With autosave, I see the a similar pattern in Mac OS X (sad but true). Please don't cross that line or give us an option if you do.
Because of iWork autosave, I reinstalled my Lion and from scratch and installed iWork with the latest update for SnowLeopard -- without autosave. This time 'Software Update' is keep bugging me, but this is much lesser annoyance that I can live with.
That said, I want my manual save back in Lion as an option for the rest of us, normal people, professional working people -- if you really care about our experience.
Very frustrated Mac lover.
(I love everything else in Lion.)

We are all users like you here. There is no guarantee that any of the Apple programmers will read your post. I suggest you leave feedback for Apple for Lion as well as each of the apps you miss Save As… in.
Also, you posted in the iWork for iOS forum. The better location would be one of the iWork for Mac forums.
Take a look at this thread for a workable solution.

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