I have never said the N8 is better than the N9. What I have said is that the N8 is more popular and more of a flagship than the N9. Myself, I don't care either way, I have both.

Swipe is nice and sexy, I do mean that, but Belle is better. Belle is extremely good, easy to use and easy to configure, and it is much faster for everyday use because it's more configurable.

The point I am making is that for the N9 to be a flagship, the Swipe UI has to be tossed. Nice and sexy - yes, practical - no. I also find myself "swiping" the N8, but other times I want to throw my N9 in the wall because I can't find the app I want in a list that only gets longer and longer. Folders will help, but they are no substitute for freely configurable homescreens.

I really do not understand your problem. You obviously would like the N9 to be popular, yet you react negative to everything that would make it more popular. You would like it to be a flagship device, yet you will not change anything on it so it eventually could be a flagship device.

What can I say? Good luck changing the world and (almost) everyone in it