Lion's introduction of Launchpad and Mission Control has continued Apple's expansion of the OS X feature set. In 2003, it was Exposé in OS X 10.3 Panther. In 2004, Dashboard in OS X 10.4 Tiger. In 2005, Spaces in OS X 10.5 Leopard (which has now been supplanted by Mission Control in OS X 10.7 Lion).

Since switching over to Lion GM, I've surprisingly begun to confuse how to access each one of these features. Is there a Fn key for it? How many fingers do I need to swipe and in which direction? So I decided to layout a simple chart of UX/UI consistencies and inconsistencies (based on factory default settings):

As of right now, I think OS X (Lion) is feeling a little cluttered. Dashboard.app has been stripped of the "active" indicator (which it had until OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.8) to stay consistent with Launchpad.app and Mission Control.app, but it just doesn't seem to mesh well with the rest of the Dock:

Before, I used to be able to determine Apple's justification for their design choices. They were well thought out and usually countered every issue you could throw at it. But now with Lion, I find myself left with a bunch of unanswerable questions:

• Why is there no organizational tool for Launchpad (like iTunes has for iOS page management)?
• Why can't you re-order spaces in Mission Control like you can re-order pages in Safari.app for iOS?
• Why did Launchpad replace Dashboard (by default) as the 'layer' that appears over the desktop, rather than a seperate Space? Yes, swiping Launchpad pages within a Space would be quite the mindfuck, but logisticly you're to do the same when "back/forward" browsing Safari as a Space (in Full Screen).
• Regarding consistency with the last point, why wasn't the Dashboard key (F4) reassigned as a Launchpad key?

To be honest, I have faith that these questions will be resolved in good time as Apple continues to flesh out their "Back to the Mac" initiative. But for now what do you think--is OS X losing its design focus? Or are these inconsistencies just a necessary part of the process?