The redesign of the redesign isn't bad, but it needs more contrast. The light grey on the white background is too hard to read and the light grey borders around

The redesign of the redesign isn't bad, but it needs more contrast. The light grey on the white background is too hard to read and the light grey borders around key elements do nothing to separate them out visually. Is this a new design trend? I'm seeing the lack of contrast on a site being seen more and more as "subtle" as if that were a good thing.