I always thought unity was designed for touch screens. Everything about it is fat for touching. I think Ubuntu wants to move to the touch screen device market.

And I find it very frustrating because I have no intention of touching any of my desktop screens.

I don't like Unity for my own daily computing. I prefer a tiling wm, often with all windows full screened. I tend to prefer minimal gui. My preference is especially strong because my laptop screen has a ten inch diagonal.

But on other machines that I've set up (for my self, and others), with a normal size screen, used primarily for web browsing and basic word processing, Unity is great. Widgets aren't "fat for touching", they're fat targets for easy clicks.

Unity has its flaws. It shouldn't be the only option. I do, however, believe it is getting better for a non-techie user.