Proposal: Street name for X1/X2 control bar - Big Stick in My Eye

For short, lets call it the Big Stick, or the Big Ugly Stick Good grief, what were they thinking. Sure the control bar is nice, when you need it, but its huge and steals way too much screen real estate. There are a number of ways to reduce its toll, and get the thing out of my eye. 1. An auto-hide option 2. An option to scale it down in size by some sliding percentage scale slider thingy. 3. Bring back user toolbars. Whoever made the decision to get rid of those should right now be looking for a job because he/she got FIRED.