Hope you're right.

I hate the look too but it's just so stupidly simple I can see a lot of MS users liking it.

For 10 years I've used and loved Fluxbox. But forced to reinstall the OS due to hardware failure I recently changed from CentOS 5.6 to Fedora 15 and decided to give Gnome 3 a serious try. After 2-3 weeks now of tweaking stuff and just getting used to it, Gnome 3 is growing on me. I certainly like it better than Gnome 2 or KDE. I might just keep it.