Agreed, they took literally the most immediately identifiable property of a window--its size--and threw it out in favor of a grid with text labels that I never

Agreed, they took literally the most immediately identifiable property of a window--its size--and threw it out in favor of a grid with text labels that I never read. The only justifications I can conceive of are that they wanted to give each window an equal click target, or that somebody really wanted text labels. Neither really impresses me. The old layout was a better visual metaphor too, akin to spreading out everything on a table; the animation for the new layout gives me a headache.