WHY? FCP wasn't broken. SO WHY?

Question

I just wish I could understand the why behind FCP X.
FCP is (was) the industry standard and fit broadcasters to filmmakers to
production houses. It has (had) over 50% of the market share.
Apple was doing something very right and we liked it. Yes, there were some
minor bugs, but for the most part, the platform was easy and the tools were intuitive.
If the new FCP was very similar to the old, but with bumped up speed and
some a different color interface and a few new filters, transitions, etc... it
would have been a HUGE success with more people moving over to Apple
and the FCP arena.
Now, Apple is risking losing their professional base. Some true believers will
stick it out and learn the new FCP X, get used to it and swear by it.
But FCP wasn't broken, it just needed more speed.
My emotions from this new release in order:
1. SHOCK
2. Disbelief
3. Shock again
4. Denial
5. Extreme anger
6. Sadness
7. Resolve to move on to a new NLE program
Please Apple - do something "magical" and "connected" with your professional
base and make this right somehow. We all make mistakes, and I'm sure you can
take a lot of the good in the new FCP X and use it to help built what Final Cut Pro X
should have been.

Answer 1

Andy - It's not an outburst, but the facts. FCPX is a prosumer version of the professional application that dominated the market and tons of edit houses, production facilities, tv shows, movies and news rooms for years.
Now, it may have the feature set being added back piece by piece, but the program itself is not ready for Primetime. Doesn't it make you wonder why the Mac Pro hasn't been upgraded in almost 3 years? Apple is moving away from the pro sector and for some, it's not a big deal. For those who based their livlihood around editing using FCS, FCPX is not a viable option.
To be specific, FCPX's "improved" organization is a nightmare for multi-bay editing environments. In our studio, we all edit the same footage and update the project file on the fly. We can email the saved project file and we're all on the same page. From what I've seen, and I could be wrong, you can't do this with FCPX. It's not meant for multiple editors, it seems it's geared toward one editor, making a really cool YouTube video for his buddies off of one hard drive.
Also, I use all digital media (HD XDCAM) but there are still a ton of people out there who don't. Yeah, I get it, THEY need to all update their gear and get with the program. But until they do, there are still a lot of tapes out there, in every format. FCPX does not support tape input.
And I know with some training it will make more sense, but the whole revamp of the timeline is comical to me. Again, I could be totally wrong, but is there multitrack editing? Not multicam, but stacking 10 layers of videos and moving them seemlessly whereever you want, leaving gaps if you want, etc. The new timeline (singular) wants us to make in/out points on all cuts and magnetic snaps things together when deleting. I want control of the timing of the clips and not constant suggestions. I want to be able to have 8 sequences within the project if I want with optional cuts on each, maybe one with all the footage, another with just interviews, another with B-Roll, etc.
It's going to be interesting to see how long we can use Snow Leopard and maybe Lion with FCS. I tried it with Lion and it was riddled with crashes, bugs and incompatible plugins.
I would be ok with all of this if Apple was at least going to continue the Mac Pro line, so down the road
we could get 16-core machines and use Adobe CS Production suite which is already at 64 bits.