Lion, first impressions (late adopter)

I know I am very late to the party, I was reluctant to upgrade to Lion after hearing about the initial teething problems.
Traditionally I always jump on-board right away.
Anyway, the upgrade has been reletively trouble free. All my apps still function except a few legacy apps that I no longer use anyway.
Overall im impressed with the smoothness & little details that make the OS fun to use.
Two things I find annoying. Full screen app switching & Launch Pad.
While both are great ideas I would love to make use of, they really don't function well - to the point of being unusable.
Launch Pads failure is obvious. There just is no good way to organise the icons. (unless I am missing something?)
I suppose if you have just the standard Apple apps & Skype - then its ok.
But, if like me, you have the full Adobe suite & a myriad of other apps & tools, its just a gigantic mess of apps, uninstallers, random files etc that would take days to sort out.
I realise that this is in someway due to app makers having assorted junk in their folders, but without a easy way to organise that junk, the whole thing becomes impossible to use.
I spent about 30 mins organising 1 page of the 6 pages I have, then realised I need to move some things back out of folders & re-jig it - so I gave up.
It really needs a simple folder view (like safari bookmarks) just for the task of organising.
Full screen apps is something I have previously avoided on the most part. Referring to or seeing a doc in the background is a common thing while I work - for example; recording a voice over I need to see the text doc & the audio recording app.
However, I am happy to make the most of it & get into the spirit of full screen.
I found I do enjoy using some apps like that, Mail particularly works nicely, switching to & fro with a swipe on the mouse is very nice indeed.
Things fall down though when you realise that there is Apples "full screen" and other apps "full screen" - flicking though your apps just doesnt work. Mail & Safari are ok, but then Photoshop & Premiere are both on the desktop, one covering the other & they do not conform to this new "full screen" way of working.
Also, despite liking Mail in Full Screen, dragging on an attachment has me stuck. Perhaps I am missing something, but it seems to adopt full screen means you must lose drag & drop - I'm not sure that I can cope with that.
It also means you cant access a Skype call so easily - I can hear it ringing, but the Skype window doesnt pop-up for me to click answer.
So, despite liking this feature, its kind of debilitating that you cant answer a call, get notifications or drag & drop while using full screen.
(if my sound was off, would I even know there was a skype call?)
Apart from these complaints the OS itself seems more visually consolodated & smooth to use. So I am happy, but just disapointed that the fancy new features are essentially irrelevant.

no question; just discussion, observation. I did not mark it as a question.
I was just hoping for some feedback, maybe advice, if i had missed something... which i indicated by typing a question mark.

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