No, what people were truly furious about were things under the hood. Or more precisely, things that weren't under this hood. Specifically, the lack of support for XML. What turned this from disappointing to infuriating was the simultaneous yanking of FCP 7 from the market, meaning that the entire FCP using community was frozen in place. It was actually illegal to add extra seats to a pipeline.

That's like walking into an air traffic control tower and smashing all the radios, then bombing the runway, just for added good measure. The difference is that Apple's customers weren't a hostile nation at war with the attackers. They were the attackers CUSTOMERS.

Indeed, the technology problems are almost a distraction. The real issue was the raw idiocy on display. I mean, this was stupidity on par with showing up drunk for a driving test. People were truly astonished that Apple could employ people this moronically dumb. And more to the point, that they'd give them access to a product with a LOT of exposure to the media industry.

If you think the situation was even remotely analogous to a Facebook redesign, you have no idea what actually happened.

I'm forced to reach this conclusion because none of the complaints has been accurate about the features of FCP X, or acknowledged the significant advancement that FCP X made to editing. Thus its clear to me that they've not used FCP X, yet are still highly motivated to attack it.

I love how this comment has a negative score, while the guy who calls me a name in every response (asshole, dick, nitwit, moron, idiot, and retarded so far) has positive scores for every single one of the posts with an insult in it. So do the other people who felt the need to derogatorily characterize me or my argument.

This is why Hacker News is in decline. So long as those who engage in bad behavior are expressing an opinion that the majority agrees with (And bashing Apple is always popular here) they will not have negative scores and thus not be flagged for review by the hellbanners.