The Office 2007 redesign was panned for similar reasons. Power users couldn’t understand why the biggest, most prominently placed buttons were for copy and paste, when everyone knew that you could use ctrl+c and ctrl+v instead. Turns out, only the power users knew that and the vast majority of users clicked 4 times for edit-copy, edit-paste. Now they only had to click twice.

This was a quality of life improvement for the vast majority of users, even if it wasn’t for the minority who used it the most.