IPhone5: Downgrade to iOS 7.0.0 from 7.0.2?

Question

Ohhh, to add insult to injury (i.e., not lovin' iOS 7) today's iOS7.0.2 upgrade includes a change Apple considers unworthy of mentioning to the thousands who still prefer iTunes10: iOS 7 now requires iTunes 11.1 or later. However, for all those clamoring for the Greek keyboard option for passcode entry, they've kindly considered you!
I have a 10-day-old iPhone 5 (a replacement for a previous one with a display problem) that I just spent days restoring, updating, downloading, and slogging through the tortuous iCloud-iTunes-WiFi syncing quagmire in an effort to finally achieve successful syncing. And it was working!! (No small feat, as anyone who's suffered inexplicable syncing sinkholes knows.) Then today I get a notification to upgrade to 7.0.2, with the above explanation. Sure, I'd like that Lock screen bug fixed, and so I hit "install."
Install is successful. Phone restarts, seems fine, but surprisingly, Mail begins to download hundreds of previously read and/or deleted emails from the last several months, indicating that they're all unread. Oh joy! So annoying, and time-consuming (the "Mark All as Read" option doesn't actually mark all of them, nevermind even trying to re-delete the previously deleted) — but not dire. At least my calendars & contacts appear unharmed. Phew. (And thank God I only access one e-mail account via my phone.)
And then tonight I opened iTunes to manually sync my calendars, just like I did last night, but surprise! I can't. Why? Because iOS 7.0.2 doesn't work with iTunes10. Now they're telling me? OMG. Now I have a headache. Not only can I not sync, I can't even use/access the phone. 
I know there will be comments about syncing through iCloud or just simply using iTunes11, but neither of those options are optimal for me. In short, iCloud is an unreliable fiasco (esp with calendars, contacts), and was the source of many problems and subsequent hours and parts of days lost trying to fix those problems. And re iTunes11, I tried it last year, hated it, and promptly reverted to 10. I know I'm not alone. In fact, I'm fairly certain there are far more iCloud-avoiding, manual-syncing iTunes10-using iPhoners out there than there are Greek-passcode-enterers. But, I digress....
So, here's the question: Does anybody know if it's possible to revert to iOS 7.0.0? Would restoring from last night's (pre 7.0.2) backup do it?
Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Wow, Ssschmidt! Were you just eagerly awaiting a post to reply to? :-)  Well, lucky me — thank you so much for your speedy and helpful reply.
Re iTunes 11, because it was quite some time ago, I can't remember the exact deal-breaker for me, but I do know it was more than cosmetic. I think it was some fundamental function/s that I use that they dropped, maybe having to do with organizing, sorting, or display of info. I remember that it also really screwed up something outside of iTunes, but can't recall what that was. One thing I am certain of is that I reallllly didn't like it and have been a happy camper ever since ditching it. I am an "advanced" Mac user (since 1987) and I understand OS and application changes, and I don't think I've downgraded any other time. Anyway, that's where I'm coming from.
Thanks for the reminder to leave a comment for Apple. I'll take your word for it that they do read the suggestions. But do they care??? :-)
Thanks again, much appreciated!