All softwares, including wim, will come with a plugin (or a built in feature) to display a custom menu on it, including the equivalent of an escape key. And you can bet the first app to be developpped will be something to display the old Fx bar in the widget.
I usually really dislike apple politics, being a linux boy myself, but I can see how this, while causing some issues, can be an interesting tool.
You want people to innovate and cry when they do so. It doesn't work that way.
Let the community try to work with it for a bit to see if interesting patterns emerge before judging.
And come on, 16GB limit? I got 32 just in case, but currenly, I can't reach 14GB without forcing myself to open everything I can. This is complaining for complaining.