For the title "Glad there is no universal portrait support", the word universal here is the key.

As people discuss here, there are certain features that would be very useful for portrait. My personal #1 vote would go for the Media player, the Now playing view. I've been using now the N900 as my mp3 player (32 gigabytes of space and all that), and changing songs would definitely benefit from the portrait mode.

Then again, there are a lot of applications that ... Well, I couldn't care less if they wouldn't support portrait.

However, when we talk about universal portrait mode support, and somebody would actually do it, it would mean spending weeks and weeks (months, really) trying to make all views work in portrait. Even those that are hard to fit in portrait and that are really not that needed...

... I guess the question is that what are you trying to do portrait mode for. Is it either portrait mode for one hand use tasks or portrait mode for everything. For Maemo 5 I would personally say that trying to fix the "smaller issue" of portrait mode for certain critical one hand use tasks. If one would try to get the best "bang for buck", one would do a list of most critical missing one hand use cases in applications and try to fix those, one at a time.