But really now, let’s be serious: If my biggest complaint about iOS 5 is that there’s an unwanted folder I can’t remove, then clearly the new mobile operating system is in pretty decent shape.

More annoying than Newsstand, to me, is one of Mail’s many tweaks. Most of the announced updates to Mail strike me as top-notch—full-text searching, rich text formatting, and a clever swipe to reveal the inbox drawer on the iPad in portrait mode. I fear that one new feature, though—one that some have clamored for—will make my Mail experience worse. In implementing the ability to flag messages in Mail, Apple seems to have done away with the “Mark as [un]read” link upon which I’ve grown to rely, apparently hiding it behind a second tap.

The iPhone and iPad are great devices. They’re intuitive and usable and good. iOS 5 refines huge swaths of the iOS user experience, turning good to great, usable to drool-worthy. The features Apple previewed at WWDC generally fall into one of two categories: features we’ve begged, screamed, and waited impatiently for, and awesome stuff we didn’t even know we wanted. Apple says that iOS 5 won’t land until fall, so this is one year I’ll finally root for summer to pass by quickly.