Has Ubuntu lost it?

Well I am back on 11.04 Natty Narwhal again and everything is tickety boo on the desktop.

I don't really want to move to Unity or Gnome 3 if I can avoid it, but may have to put up with it.

Is that age kicking in? After all I have lived from command line on mainframes to where I am today, through Dumb Terminals, DOS (loads), Sidekick, Gem, OS/2 PM, Openwave, Motif, OpenLook, Gnome, KDE all of which I have used in anger on various platforms over the years.

Maybe I just don't want to invest the time and effort to make myself properly productive in a new environment. Sill I have until October 2012 to sort it out.