Okay guys lets just be honest with ourselves and each other here for a second... I think we all basically want these major things out of our mobile device:

-The ability to do the most stuff
-The ability to get that stuff done the fastest and efficiently

User interfaces and customization is a far second to those two things

The N900 is not able to play with the new stuff, the N9 isn't either. It's simple. Android 4.0 looks promising and there is a possibility with iOS6 that widgets and things of that nature will come about (since lets be honest, Apple just steals ideas).

The iPhone 3GS is able to run iOS5, that alone tops PR 1.2 that we got from Nokia, it even tops all the hard working guys that released CSSU (which I am very thankful for).

As of right now I don't know what Android devices will be upgradable to Android 4.0 but that is a lot more support than Nokia has shown any of us.

So the main argument here is a purist argument, everyone wants the closets thing they can get to Linux on a mobile device with as much openness as possible. What good is any of that if you are not able to do the things you want to do on your device/do them slowly?