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The "Modern" or Metro gui while modified to fit the desktop Windows wasn't designed for the desktop no matter how you want to look at it! It was developed for the new Surface tablet but deployed on 8 to keep things "looking the same" as a marketing angle(plus sacrifice of desktop gui) since MS wants to grab into the mobile market competition with Google and the Fruit company!
This is where the main gripes are heard at how MS simply went out of their usual way to push Tablet touch and swipe without "options" for seeing any form of the traditional desktop. "You are now required to purchase items separately if you expect to see any normalcy in Windows! We are MS and this is what you get STUCK WITH!" is about the type of resasoning there. At least despite all of the Vista bashing you found there were "options" which MS now decided won't be necessary.