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It's a Darwinian survival mechanism - you kill off your most popular children before they grow up into monsters and strangle the next generation. It's all a bit like "I, Claudius" by Robert Graves, and the succession of the Caesars. :)
If you know the Windows key shortcuts, and imagine that the start menu button is still there, but invisible in the lower left corner, more or less everything falls into place. Windows Key + Q is arguably the most useful. Alt + Tab and Alt + F4 work in both the Metro and the Windows interface, and the Start screen becomes much more useful with the realization that typing at the Start screen immediately enters Search, it becomes much more "Sevenish".
Auto mounting of iso files on virtual CD and DVD drives, and the built in PDF reader are a real boon, and I look forward to other seamless improvements I have yet to discover. I don't like the garish tiles, or the boring polygonal fish but there will be many more ways to skin a Start screen before long.