Your post is rational and certainly shows us the future of facebook BUT what you are missing here is that manyl of us that protest about the new layout all that we want is the inclusion of more data in the News Feed. Data that is core to facebook like new friendships, photo tagging, event participation, group-page joining, photo comments etc ! All those can be included in the current News Feed without removing pages from the stream... I don't have a problem with the new design or the inclusion of companies in it (I also run a Public Profile for my company and I like more virality)... my only problem is that in order to find social networking info like those mentioned above I have to check each individual profile!
If they include again those info I am sure that many of those protesting will stop...