I've seen plenty of the Metro interface that's out in the Win8 betas, and I'm expressing an opinion of what I've already seen. I doubt that the final version w

I've seen plenty of the Metro interface that's out in the Win8 betas, and I'm expressing an opinion of what I've already seen. I doubt that the final version will likely be different. There seems to be a general trend toward a "sparse, haphazard 2D grid of elements of varying size and shape" UI paradigm, not just in Metro, but on websites and elsewhere, and apart from the more detailed criticisms of what we've seen in Metro, I think this paradigm just doesn't work - it prioritizes static aesthetics over interactive functionality - and Metro, being an instance of this, is essentially broken in concept, not just in implementation.