Great article on ByteBot about the latest Nautilus, which seems to actually understand the point of the past year or so of GNOME development:
So rather than posting to the mailing lists, or writing factually incorrect articles, it seems that the time has come to move on from the fact that Nautilus by default, has become spatial. The GNOME Desktop has started breaking down the myth of the “average user” and the “power user” and instead focusing on “good defaults and elegant interface design makes software better for everyone to use, regardless of their level of experience”, and drastic changes like this is only going to push the open source desktop further.
Secretly Ironic 