It's amazing to me how many people write articles bashing Unity and openly admit right in the article that they only used it for less than a day before deciding

It's amazing to me how many people write articles bashing Unity and openly admit right in the article that they only used it for less than a day before deciding it was terrible. How long did it take you to reach your current level of productivity in your current WM? As it happens, Unity has a ton of convenient keyboard shortcuts, and it does take some time to get used to them. I was also inefficient the first day I tried it, but I gave it a fair chance and I actually feel I'm more productive now than I was in Gnome. People complain about it being "dumbed down", but a lot of the features seem geared toward power users to me. For instance, menu bars at the top: how often do you actually find yourself clicking on a menu item with the mouse vs. using the keyboard shortcut? 99% of the time I use the shortcut, so it ends up saving a lot of screen real estate taking the menu bars out of all the windows. That's just one example, but there are little touches like that all over the place in Unity.