Thanks very much for sharing this. Trying not to take it personally is something we all really try to work on. I think you're spot on, particularly about [1].

Thanks very much for sharing this. Trying not to take it personally is something we all really try to work on. I think you're spot on, particularly about [1]. A lot of the flak we get seems to stem from the fact that we're very very much a design-oriented (as in, design at the top) community. We don't have business people saying "But people will think this looks like XYZ and that's bad for our bottom line". I personally think there must be a happy median between the "design purist" approach we currently lean towards and the "market differentiator" style. We haven't quite hit on it, as some the feedback we've received today suggests, but with thoughtful insight from people like you, and lots of internal discussions, I think we'll get there :)