These were features that were removed from Apple's apps with the release of Lion. You can understand that people would be upset. Something worked, a specific way, and then when a new release of the OS comes out and the software is updated, suddenly, it has suddenly removed features you'd used in your daily work flow. It's not as if this idea, this concept never existed.

> when other platforms don't even offer it in a single screen?

They do though, and they do it well, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.