The console is fine, it is exactly what the other python version did, just in lua. There will probably be a command to use old commands for losers. The power of it lies in scripts, not simple commands to set.
This demonstrates a little selfishness, I believe. Everyone knows how to use the console. And there are some pe ople who don't know advanced scripting etc. Updating something that only clever people isn't very fair at all, and it's punishing people who don't know it. I agree, they should learn it, but I don't think it is really fair to change it like that.
But then again, we may as well stop being so pessimistic about this and think about how wonderful it is to have DMND and SOAP and PCLN and everything...