There are plenty of skeumorphic apps that users love. E.g. the Korg drum machine app that looks and works like a Korg drum machine.
What people are actually objecting to is apps that have gratuitous visual borrowings that do nothing but consume screen real estate and occupy storage space. In most cases, Apple's "skeumorphic" apps don't even waste screen real estate (if you rip all the textures out, they look like normal Cocoa/Touch apps) so it's just a question of "do you the texture looks nice" (in my case: no) and "is it worth the megabytes of junk you now have on your hard disk" (definitely no if you answered "no" to the previous question).
Frankly, if Apple stripped the visuals to the bone in Mac OS X in the interest of making the best use of the limited space on SSDs, I'd be very happy.
What people are actually objecting to is apps that have gratuitous visual borrowings that do nothing but consume screen real estate and occupy storage space. In most cases, Apple's "skeumorphic" apps don't even waste screen real estate (if you rip all the textures out, they look like normal Cocoa/Touch apps) so it's just a question of "do you the texture looks nice" (in my case: no) and "is it worth the megabytes of junk you now have on your hard disk" (definitely no if you answered "no" to the previous question).
Frankly, if Apple stripped the visuals to the bone in Mac OS X in the interest of making the best use of the limited space on SSDs, I'd be very happy.