Is there some way the ios7 UI can be fixed so that I don't regret upgrading every time I use my phone?

I upgraded to ios7 today not particularly knowing what it was and having not really paid much attention to tech news (I'm in PhD program in history, so current events sometimes escape my notice. I personally find the new user interface with its arbitrarily changed tacky flat design utterly ghastly. I may have disturbed my neighbors with my screaming. The icons no longer match my computer, and heaven forfend some future OSX will will make my computer match them. Generally the whole thing looks much more like some budget cell phone I would get free with my cellular plan. I have owned five apple computers, three ipods, and iPad mini and two iPhones and this is the first time I have ever regretted an upgrade, or seriously considered ending my affiliation with the companies products, as, fairly or unfairly, I feel like the user interface I knew and was accustomed to as been stolen from me out of naught but corporate hubris. Sheer familiarity has been one of the cornerstone of my love for apple products, and while they have changed often over the years, it has previously never seemed so radical, save in original switch to OSX which it seems to me was both a much more gradual process and a more aethetically pleasing change.
I've had an iPhone since 2010, this is the first time I've really been unhappy with it. Can I rid my phone of this accursed ios7? If not how do I revert the UI as much as possible? Can I even just get the old icons back?

"...so current events sometimes escape my notice" 
I was just glad to be out history at last with the new icons (PhD atomphysics) :  even if you make up to do the road to Canossa you are a 1000 years too late, you can not go back..
"...and heaven forfend some future OSX will will make my computer match them"
In the beginning of the winter beware of Mavericks, it will make an end to your dream.
You can alleviate your fall forward a little bit in the Settings/General/Acessibility, but just a very little bit.
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