Classic Menu on WMP 11

I thought I would try out the new Windows Media Player 11 to see what it was like. I have to say, overall it looks very nice. The only thing that bugs me about this and all the other Vista applications is the “classic” menu. Are you guys just trying to make the interface look as ugly as possible with it turned on? I have a feeling in the post Vista days there will be hundreds of freeware applications coming into play to fix what Microsoft messed up here.