I wish they had left the OSX interface alone... The old one was mostly a player, now it's supposed to be a media center... The new UI really is horrible.
Well, now it's on the same league as the Windows version, whose UI has always been pretty bad.
Why is MPlayerX better than VLC on OSX? (Sell it to me)
Personally I've found the keyboard commands to be easier to remember in MPlayerX ( I watch a lot of streams so its dealing with networks ) than for VLC.