Exactly! Why the heck would they use some stupid wifi manager when the true joy in life comes from manually configuring WPA_SUPPLICANT on your phone?!

...just kidding - but the problem is that I would hazard a guess that most of our current developers like Maemo because you can just open up a shell and hack on your phone, but most of the intended users couldn't care less. I have to wonder how Nokia plans to balance those needs; if they made using a shell near-impossible, the phone would lose most of its appeal to me, and many others in the community, but since we aren't the majority of their market, they can't exactly tailor it us either.
Regarding this design... **please no!!** I know some people swear by on-screen keyboards, but IMO they are not a replacement for a good hardware keyboard. That said, given their announced intent to switch the whole N-Series lineup to Maemo in the future, I'd fully support keyboard-less models as well, but I seriously hope they don't do that while they still only have only one model in active production. Specifically, I hope Nokia doesn't try anything crazy until after Maemo is reasonably well-established (then again, Maemo itself is a bit crazy, albeit in a good way :P)