I had put off writing this post for a while, partly because I wanted to take the time and really give Wordpress 2.5 a whirl before bashing it.
For several months now I have watched the discussion on the Wordpress.org support forums – especially about the much maligned admin back-end changes, run a security "back-porting" experiment [...]

Just wanted to update you on a few developments with the back-porting of Wordpress 2.5.x security improvements to version 2.3.3.
First, I want to emphasize that I did this largely to show that it was possible, and that Wordpress (Automattic) should consider rolling out such security fixes for older versions as patches rather than forcing "upgrades" [...]