Just a few notes:

1. Portrait mode. Yes. Drink !

2. Mixed emotions. Desktops don't do this either. Showing passwords can be fun when you have video-out enabled

3. Never was a problem for me. There seems to be some heuristics going on, so you just aim for the lower left corner to drag and you'll be ok

4. Usage pattern. Whether you run into this problem depends of how use stuff. If you activate every possible widget and put dozens of contacts on the desktop, then yes, that's what you get (I wonder what he was doing on the N8x0s ?). Even more desktops are a limited solution as already I do a lot of flipping until I find the one which I'm looking for

5. Wait for Maemo Mapper/next Ovi version/etc

6. Complaining about lack of software for a unit that is not available to the general public and is known to be primarily supported by independent developers is kind of silly (seriously, dude...). Also, official Qt won't help symbian applications to get to Maemo as there IS NO significant amount of symbian Qt apps at this point.