In what universe did you guys think this was a good looking UI for iTunes?

Question

This is the ugliest, and pain in the *** to use UI, I have ever seen.  Please please reconsider it.  The UI is absolutely horrific to use (I had iTunes set up the way I wanted it prior to update, and now you can't set it up the way I had it before....)

Answer 1

Many thanks for these helps to get a little of the usefullness back into this dreadful distortion of iTunes; but can ANYONE help with key strokes to LOSE the "grid" of "album covers" in "Music" and go back to a more useful alphabetical LIST (you can do this in the OTHER genres - why not HERE where it is most necessary?!) - actually THAT I just found: you have to list things by SONG (actually track, since most of my library is not music) and then organize THAT by Album to get back to a useful screen.
The New York Times reported that under the new system you will not be able to durn discs with "gapless playback". Is this true? If so (and even if not), can anyone PLEASE tell us how to get back to the last version of iTunes 10?! There must be someplace it can still be downloaded. I would NEVER have installed this version (and I have *always* installed the latest version of iTunes when sent out) had I known about the Album Cover Grid (which precludes, as far as we can tell, the LARGER illustrations many were able to use under the old system) or the loss of the "gapless playback."
We are still Apple people, but before making THIS radical a change, some warning should have been given that this was NOT a simple cosmetic change like when we lost the charming little rotating cursor during downloads...and when a Community member blithely says "if you don't like Apple go somewhere else" he's ignoring that there IS nowhere else. iTunes has always been the gold standard of audio managing programs.
There changes alone degraded iTunes to something less than Windows Media player just for the sake of novelty and meaningless (except in their irritation quotient) cosmetics. If they wanted to go in that direction why, in heaven's name, couldn't they have offered a new "iTunes-Pop" version for people who don't actually USE their audio or graphics, and leave a great product essentially ALONE for the rest of us as "iTunes BASIC" - or at the very least had the default version closer to the version most of us LOVED rather than forcing us to search for "work-arounds" to make the most useful sound management program on the web useful again! There were things which NEEDED upgrading, and the gnomes at Apple addressed none of them.
The Search Engine has needed improvement for years - the size bar at the bottom of a screen has always been listed in inaccurate tenths of an hour rather than the more USEFUL minutes and seconds shown for individual tracks - THOSE things that actually NEEDED fixing to be useful they left alone.