>They take up a lot more screen space.
So make them smaller, or remove the tiles you don't use often. Did they remove those options in 10?
>but most applications like calculator / Photoshop / Skyrim don't have status information.
So don't put them on your start page
>scrolling 3 pages to the right just to look at a list is annoying.
From what I've read, this isn't the intended use case. The idea is to set up the start page like, as you put it, a personal home page. That's what it's for. The all apps screen is the one with everything on it (extant 512 app limit bug notwithstanding).
>current temperature outside or a what the stock price was 15 minutes ago is generally fairly useless and wastes screen space.
>Unless I forgot my name I can't think why displaying it is helpful.
In any case it's no worse that the old start menus that did exactly the same thing.
Between icons on the desktop, pinned programs on the taskbar, pinned programs on the start page, the all programs page, and typing to search all programs when on the start page, you'd think everyone would be able to work out a balance that fits their usage pattern.