...but Unity is no better

You have a big screen - let's say a 19"; thus, you can have several windows at a time, each running an important application you scrutinize. But if you want to do something with the application's window menu, you (your mouse) have to go far up, where is the application's menu - because somebody decided that we all should run Ubuntu on tablets only, where the screen is small and an application is maximized to occupy the whole display...