They actually have denied a LOT of UI changes, using limitations on the console platforms as the main concern. Even things that techically weren't a limitation of the console itself, but more the size of the screen on the consoles (what was it, 800 X 600 or soemthing on PS2) preventing them from doing some changes because of the lack of real estate on screen.

Such things are not an issue on systems that can go to full-blown HD resolution, and on PC's that have a VAST amount of resident memory to work with (one of the larger issues with consoles, if I remember right, PS2 doesn't even use it but streams data constantly). So, it's good to see that they are giving in and tweaking things more and more for the platforms that have the capability. Maybe they finally caught on to what all of us have been saying for a long time now....tweak the PC version to make it more attractive and people will be more inclined to move off the more restricitve platforms to the point they can just stop worrying about that legacy platform and everybody wins in the end.