Great. So what? Just because the current product isn't good right now doesn't mean that the direction it is heading in is bad. You might not like Windows 8 that much, and you probably shouldn't. I'd never argue that people should like it. Why should they? It's a janky feature-sparse mashup OS. I use it on desktop myself and while I appreciate the performance bump and some of the new features, I don't have any use for Metro and it took quite a few tweaks for me to be happy with the desktop experience. You're absolutely right, currently it just doesn't offer the 10X product improvement necessary to induce eager consumer behaviour change.

Look, Microsoft is making an omelette. But right now all they have to sell is broken eggs. The only source of confusion here is that Microsoft's marketing department trying to convince everyone that they've got an omelette to sell. Look at it like that and there really isn't much to argue about anymore.