Now so much a question of what people want...

... as what makes money, though there is inevitably some overlap. Take out the applications, and they've eliminated a huge revenue stream both for them and for the application producers. The bottom line is that the applications are only a vehicle to get users to watch (and occasionally accidentally even click on) adverts, some of which are sufficiently embedded as to be unavoidable. Don't labour under the misapprehension that MindJolt et al are games companies; they are first and foremost advertisers. If they cared about games they would triage the twaddle they publish rather better, and not force an advert view per play.

I would have used it...

I have a MIPS netbook that just can't handle full-fat Facebook. As a travel gadget it's dead handy, though -- reasonable battery, optional wifi etc. Facebook always refused to let it use the mobile interface and redirected me to www. -- I couldn't be bothered faking the browser string so I gave up.

Given the "getting stuck in lite" thing, I didn't attempt it.

So I just don't use Facebook on the road.

Nooooo

Why didn't Facebook not just pull the plug on Farmville, Zooville and Mafiawars instead, I have actually deleted friends who done nothing but play those games resulting in me getting pages and pages of crap posted.