I think OS2008 is a significant improvement over 2007... which was an improvement over 2006... which was an improvement over 2005. More to come... I like finger friendliness... but I would PREFER a rollback to CONTEXT friendliness...
It seems we'll have consistency in Fremantle: https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564 However, whether everyone will like the resulting UI is a different matter ;-)