No SCE won't change XMB.
They will slowly fix the other more important things instead of wasting time on the things thats not actualy broke.
The max time you should spend on XMB is about 6 seconds to select the Next game/Video/Music to play.
Reading messages will take longer if all you get is tons of spam.
The settings Menu could be hidden buy a preset after setup, but all the other menus are still needed.
All Icons can be Altered with a theme editor and the Wallpaper is user changable with out one.
The wallpaper also auto changes when you move over content.
My Top 3 app wallpaper
BBC sports app wallpaper is nice.
As is the AXN player.
The NHL App wallpaper
Its an award winning design on HDTVs and BD players ( The PS vita is touch screen, like other touch screen devices it needed touch controlls which the XMB does not have..)
There is allready a Back lash of users who don't like metro, so Microsofts designs are no award winners.
Linux is no better Unity and gnome3 was laughed at on release.
Apple messed up OSX buy adding IOSX features and upset their High spending Imac core user base...
