I agree with all this. There is no rationale about reducing "screen clutter" that makes sense; instead of a google search window, I have just as much screen space taken up with what are truly useless menu items: Suggested Sites and Web Slice Gallery. The Suggested Sites produces a list of sites I would not waste time clicking into, and I have no idea what a "Web Slice Gallery" is, and I don't really care, since it is obviously not important enough to explain its purpose. This is screen clutter I would like to remove.
Safari 6 has the same bugs as Safari 5; in Safari 5 on my IOS platform, when I used my finger to change the caret position, the keyboard locked up. I was told this was a JavaScript bug and I should demand that my ISP fix their WebMail system. What part of "Our implementation of JavaScript is defective" did I fail to understand? Why hasn't this bug been fixed? This is the Microsoft approach: "dazzle them with glitz and glamor, and it doesn't matter that it has all the same old bugs". How about a little less effort to fix problems that exist only in the fantasies of the designers and a little more effort in actually fixing the very real bugs that the users report?
This JavaScript bug impacts many Web sites I use, not just WebMail. In one of them, the caret disappears entirely after the first paragraph, as well as having the keyboard lockup problem.