Disagree. The classic toolbar reads easily left to right just like a line of text - clean, simple, consistent. Ordered left to right, with icons grouped like words in a sentence - file operations, editing operations, other less-commonly used operations. Second line reads style operations, formatting, less-commonly used formatting.

The ribbon, on the other hand, reads like someone took all the icons off the toolbars, shook them up in a toybox full of other junk and clutter, and dumped it all out into a messy pile. Randomly sized icons, arrow menus, tabs, just scattered haphazardly all over.

There's no way that can be considered 'strictly superior' to a clean, straightforward, well-organized UI.