Lion is disappointed

I am quite surprised that APPLE is doing the same thing WINDOWS did 20 years ago. How come APPLE could release a major upgrade with such careless progress?
The "search" function is now gone wild as it used to be able to search subfolder. Now nothing.
"Preview" crashed from launch.....
Are there any responsible engineers check them all before final release? The world's biggest mobile device maker is fooling us now.
I NEED MY MONEY BACK FOR THE LION download and please tell me how to downgrade back to Snow Leopard. I don't want 10.7. LION *****!!!!

Many many things are just different and not necessarily "broke". There also has to be the attidtude that as things progress or are done differently it will mean alearning curve. That is not to say that some things can be irritating.
You seem upset about one thing? There were so many video's and reviews with public Dev releases that much of it was know going in, which begs the question why did you buy or download it at all so quickly? Just so you could come on here and *****?

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