Being someone who hasn't played Masters of Orion or Masters of Orion 2 before seeing MoO3, I found myself latching on to my first experience. Trying to play the other two after getting used to the UI for MoO3 was a painstaking process that sucked a lot of the fun out of it. That said, while veterans of the Masters of Orion franchise seem to tear this version to bits, I find that it's a fairly well-done turn based game. The interface in MoO 3 works fine once you get used to it, and the design really makes it easy to segregate important information and access it when you need it. Others don't like it, but out of the series, MoO3 is my favorite out of all of them.
