Mission Control - What a horrible experience

First off, I am a long time OSX user dating back to the initial release.
Each iteration of the the OS has generally built upon the features of the prior version, and usually included new, exciting, usable features.
Mission Control in Lion adds some new functionality for workspace and application window management.  It's another way to get around.
Apple's mistake?  Removing Expose and Spaces.
Has a single solitary person at Apple actually used Mission Control on a dual display setup?  No - Let me rephrase - I mean have they actually *used* it to get anything done?
While in Mission Control, I can't move a window from the right display to the left?  Really?  What were you thinking, Apple?
While in Mission Control, I can't see which display on the left goes with which display on the right?  How am I supposed to quickly move a window to the right monitor for an application shown on a left monitor?  No - Really - Try it.
While in Mission Control, I can't see all of my application windows - Just some lame (and I mean LAME) stack of a couple of windows for the application.  Yes, I know I can swipe and see a little bit more, but I can never see all of them.
Expose and Spaces could handle ALL of that above, and did it logically, and without any fuss.
Mission Control isn't just "inconvenient", it is downright painful!
Please - Please - Please - Put the option of Expose and Spaces back.  Mission Control may be "cool" for some configurations (laptops, etc), but for those of us who use OSX daily to get work done, it takes a multi-display Mac and makes it useless.
Oh - And full screen apps?  Did ANYONE at Apple test that idea on dual display Macs?  Did you happen to notice that the full screen app makes the second monitor a fancy paperweight?

I agree too.
This is what I've sent to https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Feel free to use portions of the text to send your own feedback.
Takes just a few seconds and probably helps to improve Mission Control. At least we have no other chance of pushing things.
Dear Apple,
having used Apple Systems since OS 7, it is a real pain to see, what you have done to the usability of Mac OSX with the switch to Mission Control.
Has anyone of your engineers ever tried to use Mission Control on a dual display setup? I don't think so, otherwise you immediately should have realized, how broken it is:
• You can't move a window from one display to the other.
• You can't move windows between desktops. Instead you first have to go to each source desktop and move the windows from there to your destination desktops.
• Usually you think in "dual display desktops" not in individual left and right desktops. The organization in Spaces, showing left and right display side by side, was logical. In Mission Control you permanently have to match left and right displays of a desktop by reading the desktop number or even worse count their position, aka. 3rd desktop from left.
• You can't use your second display in full screen mode as it only shows a gray pattern. Unbelievable!
I admit, Mission Control and Fullscreen Mode have their place on a MacBook Air, but for a big screen, dual display setup they are completely useless in their actual state.
Currently reverting back to Snow Leopard is the only way to work efficiently with a dual display setup due to these flaws in Mission Control.
I dearly ask you to bring back Spaces to Lion or bring over the missing functionality of Spaces to Mission Control, before Snow Leopard becomes unsupported by current software.
I'm really disappointed, that even in 10.7.2 none of these issues are addressed.

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