Personally, I'm grateful for ANY free software.

I'm not saying your comments aren't worthwhile, but why beat the guys down prior to offering your suggestions for improvement? If you had paid for it, then maybe you'd have some justification for griping about the state of the release, but that's not the case here.

In the spirit of open source, maybe you'd like to offer the Canola team your time to improve on the things you are complaining about?