I have yet to see the advantages in these changes. Correct me if I'm wrong:

1. Left/right swipe covers are not possible in Home screen, because that gesture is now asigned to EVENTS. Old events gesture was 'pull up'.

2. 'Pull up' gesture is now assigned to accessing APPS LAUNCHERS from everywhere. Before that, they were restricted to Home screen.

So, the deal is: we give swipe covers away and get, in exchange, apps running from everywhere. And I don't like it.

But I guess there's another reason: the infamous "partnership space". It's not easy to fit that thing into the 1.0 Events view.