In reply to Otto.

I felt the same way for a while, but the posting interface through WordPress.com has totally grown on me, to the point where going through /wp-admin now feels like the old, clunky, slow way.

Obviously, menu management isn't something that most people interact with nearly as much as posting, but I've come to see /wp-admin as something that I *have* to log into in order to do certain things with my site, and this just takes another item off that list of reasons why I have to log in to my /wp-admin.