The thing is, on a trackpad it makes more sense now after getting used to our phones touch.

Also its a quick defaults away to change back to the old way.

defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

I find it amusing that on a site like Hacker News people are complaining about vastly simple things to change. If they remove the choice maybe then complain, but this is a vast non-issue compared to the tweaking I have to do on linux.

They're not complaining because it's difficult to change. They're complaining because they are unhappy with the mentality and the direction OSX is going.

I understand that, it just comes across as someone moving their cheese. I guess I don't expect my desktop os to stay static forever. Change isn't always bad, I was in their camp until about a day after using it in which I realized it wasn't that big of a deal in the first place.

Or you can just check a box. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/178401/Screenshots/-qre.png