I hate the redesign. However a big improvement I made was to go into the theme editor, click customize, set the "Brightness" to the third from the right and the

I hate the redesign. However a big improvement I made was to go into the theme editor, click customize, set the "Brightness" to the third from the right and then tick the "Darker sidebars". That returns the UX to something that I find a lot easier to read at a glance.