As long as they haven't changed the hotkeys around too much, i'm not too bothered by the top menu change, to be honest. As long as they're not still hiding things.

I like the fact they're adding Friend categorization. It will help vastly for those who have large lists of mixed individuals for whom various visibility & object permissions are set.

Also, a context menu instead of the pie menu is supposed to be a little more intuitive, so i'd be interested to see how much better or worse it does work for content creators in practice.

What DOES bother me though is that the context menu *yet again* is missing the fundamentals for content creators to get started working within two clicks.

In my (almost) three years of SL, i have NEVER ONCE hit 'Gestures' on the pie menu with the intent of actually using Gestures, and have great difficulty seeing the need for immediate UI access to that menu. But i use 'edit' every day, dozens of times every hour. To deliberately hide that again after having dealt with this in a JIRA is rather frustrating.