Or just be able to admit it was a mistake, many see it as a negative distraction, and change it back to the way it used to be. Change for the sake of it is never healthy.
We have plenty user comments here that prefer the old way. Ain't broken, no need for fixing in the first place.
We are customers who happen to use the product, if we don't like where it's going this will most certainly have significance for Apple. Of course you can feel free to sit it out and pretend all is great. Someone has to drink the kool aid.
You're "plenty" of comments represent a ridiculously small sample size. People who are happy with the lock screen or at least indifferent are far less likely to take to a forum to say so, so those who are complaining may be a vocal minority.
It is rather condescending to suggest that others are in denial or "drinking the kook-aid" just for disagreeing with you about something as benign as a lock screen layout. Those are the kind of glib remarks that people direct at other people just for using Apple products at all just because
they don't like them. People like what they like and it's certainly your right to complain, but you can never please everyone, so sometimes there will be changes that you don't like but others do. Lord knows I don't agree with ditching the headphone jack on iPhones, but it's either live with it or take my business elsewhere. Ultimately the only power we have as consumers is our cash.