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I think it's because Metro punches you in the face regularly when you are a desktop user if you like it or not (which I don't).

I rather liked Windows the way it was. Things were in the right place. I'm a luddite though - running classic theme in Windows 7 (and I still use Excel 97).

Because you have to shy away from the desktop to launch anything. "Metro" is the new start menu.

Unless, of course, you pin your most used applications to the taskbar or create a shortcut on the desktop. Honestly, it is pretty easy to avoid the metro screen if you really want to. In any given day, I may see the metro screen 2-3 times the entire day, on average, all because I setup my machine to work the way it is most productive for me.

Well, the reason I was being, honestly, a douche about using Metro, is that this is the future direction of Windows. I don't expect their roadmap has a desktop appearing at all in Windows 10. Maybe not even in Windows 9. It's a transitional thing.

The usability of desktop mode Windows 8 is actually worse than Windows 7.