Others have commented on the excessive padding, there seems to be a cycle of increasing and decreasing the padding at Microsoft. Anyway, I welcome this effort.

Others have commented on the excessive padding, there seems to be a cycle of increasing and decreasing the padding at Microsoft. Anyway, I welcome this effort. It will be very beneficial for fluent design if Microsoft tries to apply it to a serious app like Visual Studio. The current state is fine for smaller apps, simple list-detail views and so on. But there are a couple of problems for larger, productivity style apps. The menu bar is needlessly spacey, there are no rich list/detail views a la Explorer, keyboard navigation is tricky... If Microsoft is going all in on Fluent (with Office, Explorer, Terminal, Visual Studio), they will hit these limitations. And I hope that the new widgets they are developing will soon be available for others as well.