If you are a professional, FCPX is unusable

Question

First of all, I'm not in the target group for this app. I'm a video professional, I run a post production studio. This is, despite the name, an upgraded iMovie and has little to do with Final Cut. It has tons of more features than iMovie, but that doesn't change the fact that this is an app for the beginner, hobbyist and not the video professional. If it was called iMovie Pro I would not object. But calling this Final Cut, giving this app the name of this brilliant, but aged, peace of software is nothing short of misleading marketing.
We cannot use an app which main screen is dominated by the message "Import iMovie events". We cannot use an app where you use drop down menus to select resolution. This makes me concerned, what will this leave us? I decided to leave Avid behind long ago, and I definitely haven't changed my mind. Premiere? Maybe in the future, but it still feels too clumsy. I guess we have to stick to good, but flawed and old, Final Cut Pro 7. Just the way we use QuickTime Pro 7 and not QuickTime X.
When Vista came I decided that we couldn't use that and we couldn't stick with XP forever. So we made the switch to OS X, despite the fact that 3D and compositing apps were lagging behind on the system. We did it because we felt there was no future in Windows for us, we couldn't stick with an old system. Now, sadly, I feel the exact same about Final Cut, except I have no other system to go to.
If you are a video professional, I strongly advice you not to buy this app, despite the low price. If you are a hobbyist that like iMovie and want more powerful features, you will love this app.
And, Apple, if you find ONE video editor working on a professional level (no, not a wedding photographer or hobbyist music video maker) that does not agree with the above, please let him explain to me why I'm wrong.

Answer 1

I have been an Editor and Assitant editor working in network television for many many years now. After working with FCP a few times on some independent projects and being fed up with Avid's pomposity and arrogance I started urging shows to start using FCP. And in fact, a few years ago convinced a very prominent production company that it was time to ditch the idea of renting Avids everytime they went into post production on a show and to take the costs of a one season's worth of Avid rentals in order to purchase their own Macs running FCP and an XSan. I worked in concert with Apples Pro Apps point people to show the Producers how a tapeless workflow in FCP would not only save them a large amount of money in equipment, but the additional control over delivery would also save them thounds per episode by doing more of the finish work in-house rather than at a costly post production facility. Imagine my disappointment to discover that my loyalty to, and promotion of, Apple's products is being rewarded by by having Apple make that progression towards FCP pointless in the long run. While for the time being, we can certainly use FCP7 to continue to professionalt cut and finish a show, that will come end rapidly as support dries up for FCP and future OS's leave it behind. There is no way I can tell that same producer at this point that we can do shows in what I now view as iCut Enthusiast. I'd have to tell everyone on the Post team that they need to jump through hoops finding workarounds for the same things that were virtually effortless to do before.
Apple has frequently missed opportunites to corner the profesional film and television market and this move proves why they will never do so. They have no conept or concern for what a truly professional tool set needs to be. They have done what Avid folks have been predicting for years. Dumbing down the product in order to sell more software and promote the use of their hardware by bring things to their iOS world.