One day with Lion

Having upgraded to MacOS X 10.7 Lion the minute it became available (as one should), I collected some observations (in no particular order) during the first day with Lion. Here we go:

install from App Store - painless. Getting a semblance of an invoice from Apple - not so painless. Getting it reimbursed - we'll see about that...
natural scroll direction - first thing to get disabled (Trackpad preferences). The idea sounds good in principle, and makes sense on iPhone/iPad, but I am not feeling like going against 20 years worth of muscle memory.
new "scrollers" is the hallmark of Lion's GUI changes. While I do not miss old scrollbar arrows (good riddance!), the absence (until you begin to scroll) of an indicator of whether there's more stuff above or below the window edge is concerning...
"back" in browsers - another preference change to get back gesture-based "back" button activation. How come?
dashboard is better accessible now - that is a good thing
TimeMachine on 3rd party support broken. Awaiting a firmware update from QNAP.
Spotlight triggered a VERY long re-indexing of the drive
2GB of RAM minimum - my older Apple Mac mini "Core 2 Duo" 1.83 is out of luck
dock icon badges with white outline scale down very poorly. Apple, are you kidding me???
dropped Java Runtime (though available for download automatically)
no waking up from sleep on trackpad movement? need to either click (which is weird on new trackpads) or hit a key. ANother unnecessary annoyance.
Citrix "AGAdminService" was taking up >90% of CPU resources - uninstalled here.
TechTool Pro 5 seems to take too much CPU as well - disabled it
Adium's Skype plugin does not work - disabled. By the way, tried new iChat with Yahoo Messenger capability - nice, but I am too used to Twitter feed in my Adium, so will stick with that
new scrollbars do not always get well-positioned in older software - NetNewsWire's left-most panel
Finder preference - new windows default to "All My Files" - I do not think so!
so there is no more ~/Library? Yawza! My Mac is morphing into an iPad right in front of my eyes! Option+Go in Finder to get to ~/Library...
three candy widgets at top left are no longer candy. Too small - ever heard of Fitts's law? And .-+ edge-to-edge on mouseover look ugly! Will try going to Appearance = Blue to get the candy back.
New GrowlMail v1.3 is available.
Mail.app - letterbox is finally native! Nice organization of reply threads. Favorite bar - Microsoft Entourage idea?
dialog boxes pop up a bit too aggressively
WTF did they do with Address Book GUI? Apple, where is your legendary simplicity?
native whole-disk encryption