Agreed, everything is a matter of preference. Disabling transparency was my first try but I did not like the color of the dock with that option so I created the utility.

I actually never want to see the Dock or rarely see it, so hiding it does the trick for me. I use a launcher (Alfred with Powerpack) and Toggle (⌘+tab) if I'm switching apps.

Anyone know of a way to reduce the delay while auto-hiding the menubar? The day I find a way to instantly show the menubar when cursor-hover, I will hide that too.

Is it different from the colour of the dock in the previous versions?

Seriously, I can't fathom why translucency is still being pushed -- for the menu bar and window sidebars.

It was a fad when Windows Vista introduced it. It's not useful at all. It should have disappeared when flat design was introduced, but inexplicably Apple still likes it?

There is no reason for my menu bar to be light blue or light pink or whatever other random color happens to be at the top of my wallpaper, especially when my windows cover up the wallpaper anyways.

It looks nice to me, I love the transparent sidebars especially.

Though I did also like the vista look when it come out.

I love transparency, it looked pretty trash in the vista aero theme because of all the gloss but now I feel like its realizing its true beauty.

I like it. And in general, I like skeumorphism in design.