While the title may seem a little far fetched, it’s currently the sentiment of a very large portion of the PlayStation community, who are now in an uproar due to changes in the XMB which were before undocumented by reports.
So much so, in fact, that already the official PlayStation blog has received well over 1000 comments, most of which coming from dissatisfied users, just a small portion of the common dislikes for the new firmware are as follows.

    * XMB Font and icons have been increased in size considerably.
    * Friends list now has a seemingly logic-defying grey box for their background (which is currently not customizable, even with dynamic themes).
    * Game list now only shows the name of the selected game.
    * PlayStation store being in almost every single submenu – absolute overkill.
    * Inability to disable the ticker which is currently really, really repetitive.
    * Inability to disable infobar.
    * An option to Enable/Disable ‘What's new’ that doesn’t seem to actually do anything.
    * No option to disable XMB blur
    * No option to revert to classic startup

And now for the list of featured people actually do like.

    * Dynamic themes, even though there's only currently two (one of which is free).
    * The new startup (debatable, a lot don’t)

Really, for such a major update it must be quite a blow to Sony to have it’s userbase so deeply unsatisfied by the changes.

source:
http://www.nyleveia.com/category/ps3/

no complaint about the new bootsound? i liked the old one =(

you can get the Afrika Dynamic theme for free.
Just create a Japenese PSN account, then log into the PS Store, and the afrika theme is there for the downloading.   It is on my PS3 xmb now, and I must say it is stunning  

hmm, judging from the sounds of things Sony might just be bringing 3.1 a little early.

ProperBritish Wrote:with change comes complaints. im not bothered, the only thing that is slightly annoying are the grey boxes on the friends.

well yeah but sony needed to listen to one rule

if it aint broke don't fix it, something they don't understand

ProperBritish Wrote:with change comes complaints

yes, when the changes aren't discussed with the public before making them

(This post was last modified: 02/09/2009 11:50 AM by SchmilK.)

I haven't tried it yet, but someone on another forum said if you shake the controller in the xmb, the particles around the wave will get all shook up  

Also, anyone know if they are gonna release a theme maker that allows end users to make their own dynamic themes ??

(This post was last modified: 02/09/2009 12:18 PM by Mr. Shizzy.)