The hack to remove the Metro interface, by all accounts won't work in the Gold version, unless another hack is found. But why the hell should people have to hack it to achieve what they want.
Not everyone has a touch screen, not everyone working at a desktop wants to use a large touch screen your arms would be dropping of after a day using that. Have you seen them demonstrating these touch screen interfaces on the likes of QVC, they are standing up not sat at a desk with their arms at 90 degrees, it is just so damn unnatural.
For me it doesn't have a killer reason why I need, want it, or would pay to upgrade, faster, smarted more secure, none of that effects how I use my system. To me they are just marketing buzz words, virtually every new release of windows is touted as faster, smarter, more secure.
I still haven't found a reason why I would have upgraded to win7 yet, other than it was on my new netbook as you couldn't get XP Pro, I certainly wouldn't have paid for an upgrade. I still don't really like win7 and it is a long way closer to a classic desktop interface.