"It's old, so we must change it" is a mindset that lacks something. Specifically, it lacks "because we have better ideas now and the old version has become inad

"It's old, so we must change it" is a mindset that lacks something. Specifically, it lacks "because we have better ideas now and the old version has become inadequate for practical tasks". I wish designers would stop putting me through experiences. At the foot of the page is a link to "The new Wikipedia appearance that took the whole village", with a boast about "We worked effectively with our editing community". Well, the technical improvements are fine, nobody minds if search works better. But regarding the look and feel of the skin, the way I remember it is, they did a trial rollout and consulted the unwashed masses of editors on lengthy talk page threads, and about half of us outright hated it, and they ignored us and only "worked with" positive people suggesting minor tweaks, because at that point it was a fait accompli and WMF was paying them to design stuff and they were damn well going to, whether we didn't like it.