"Old" and "new" don't describe intrinsic qualities, they're just indicators of what sequence things arrived in, which is something wholly orthogonal to the valu

"Old" and "new" don't describe intrinsic qualities, they're just indicators of what sequence things arrived in, which is something wholly orthogonal to the value or utility of the things in question. Yes, people may often be uncomfortable with change per se - but if it's fallacious to presume that change is always bad, it's equally fallacious to presume that newer is always better. Much of the criticism of Google's recent changes describes valid objections to the nature of Google as a tool in its present state, not just complaints that it's different from what they're used to.