I just realize, customized intuitiveness brought about certain expectations over smoothness of interface. This expectation could bite your asz later when things were different / changed.
There is utility in minimizing amounts of clicks to get into the desired activity, especially if that's the only activities you do in that application. But for applications with various functions catered for different types of occasions we must realize that often the most frequent usage is not the only important one.
When users got carried away with their usual habits in the application, the moment he/she tried to get into another usage which were infrequent but also important, their intuition would be a stumbling stone to them, they would experience an extra difficulty in using the interface.
For a lot of things practice helps, but in this case practice hinders while there's just not enough occasions to practice for the rare occasion... obviously.
So the answer to this is some kind of maneuverability of context, where the context theme of the application changes in accordance with different occasions. But not only do the application needed to make available this feature, the users also need to be made aware of this behavioral hindrance
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