I like simple things. When I first installed Skype I fell in love with its well designed UI without useless gimmicks or animated, colourfull and blinking buttons.
Today I installed the latest beta 3.2.0.52. What have they done? Why the hell does Skype make its client look like any other Yahoo bullshit software now? I am not amused.
Fully agree with you, at least you have the option to remove tabs you don’t want (Ansicht -> Reiter und Tabs).