@Mark -

LOL a little melodramatic are we? Do you mean, "why HAVEN'T I noticed the flyout menus that have ALWAYS been on there when you hover over the menu icons when the menu is collapsed in 3.2.1"?

Or did you mean, "in 3.2.1 I am addicted to keeping the menus expanded all the time! I'm SOOOO glad that the new menu in 3.3. will force me to keep them closed! I hate having choices!" Just trying to match the drama. I mean, you really can't be serious, since 3.2 you've had the choice to keep the menus collapses and roll over them to get flyouts...

IMHO the fact that they are removing the ability to keep the menus expanded in 3.3 is annoying and senseless. Just because people like Mark prefer to have their menus collapsed because they don't really "use" wordpress (inferred by the use of "my production sites" which implies that you are a developer or designer and don't actually do anything productive INSIDE of wordpress as a user) doesn't mean that actual users don't need the menus expanded. Your viewpoint changes when you manage products, orders, a knowledgebase, etc. I do NOT look forward to having to hover over those menus in 3.3 to edit and manage products and orders.