I do not need six weeks of lessons and five months of crashing before I can use it. If automobile user interfaces changed with one- tenth of the speed of software interface changes, most of us would have died in highway accidents long ago. My expertise is not computers - my expertise is government and politics, budgeting, public policy. If I am going to use the new technology - I do not want to waste time learning new interfaces. To sum it all up.
Information is power, but glitz is simply glitz.
The constantly changing interface is not a death trap, but it is a time sink. We must become more intelligent users and advocates of the new technology.