I hope that they will have an option to get rid of the metro style(right side) of the start menu. I have always found metro to be ugly.
If your referring to just the "live tiles" portion of Metro that may be possible. But the whole Metro UI permeates the operating system through more than just live tiles. There will more than likely be an option to turn them off. I think I have heard fervent defenders of Windows 8 proclaim that you can in the hopes of converting holdouts to the wonderfully "gay" OS that Windows 8 is.
But part of the ugliness you speak of, which I think is considered part of the Metro UI, is the over-sized, square 4-bit opaque color theme, that is everywhere. And from all the recent screenshots of Windows 9 it doesn't look like they are backing down on those issues. Why they wouldn't give desktop users everything they have been clamoring for is beyond me at this point. I don't know what ***** over at Microsoft is saying, "Well, we are going to give them 90% of everything they have been demanding. But let's hold our ground on the 4-bit opaque square over-sized window theme we have going just so we don't look like complete pansies."
*shrugs*