Look at the picture attached to the article you just posted. At the bottom of the screen 'Options, exit'. Just where the soft menu keys would have been. And the same size. And the same amount of buttons.
This is a touch phone. Why do you place on screen items like they're going to be activated by soft buttons?
The N8 is a really nice phone by 2002 standards. I used to be a big fan of Nokia because they didn't clutter up their menus so badly, or if they did you could at least remember the numbers and zip through them that way. The 8890 was the peak of Nokia, and it's all been downhill from there, trumped time and time again by Ericsson and more recently Apple.
The last Nokia phone I truly loved was the 6310i. Was using one until last year when refurbs started getting too expensive for my taste.
I now have an N900, which I also love - but I don't regard it as a phone, I regard it was a small portable Debian install that just so happens to also make phone calls :)
Options/Exit is a long time Symbian thing. Since the OS in N8 is an evolutionary step from the current version of the OS, they probably didn't want to change things too much.
Anyway, this is actually one of the least problematic aspects of Symbian and not a disaster at all.
This is a touch phone. Why do you place on screen items like they're going to be activated by soft buttons?
Disaster #2 on the way.