What's funny is that this is the same exact way everyone reacts to Facebook interface edits.
"OMG FACEBOOK IS SUCH A FAIL!!!"
"holy crap this is retarded wtf fb"
"What a bunch of shit. I can't navigate worth anything."
Then in a week or so, everyone starts liking the changes and gets adjusted to them. Why?
Because there are men at desks in offices who take courses in college about designing interfaces and businesses, who have experience with designing interfaces and businesses, who broach these changes to the developers of such sites who proceed to develop these aforementioned interfaces. They know what you're going to wind up liking as functional, sleek and accessible before even you do. They are professionally trained to know this type of shit, lol.
The general demographic of these sites that seem to attract a lot of media traffic tend to be maladjusted to the concept of change. Fact of the matter is, change is good. And what do I think? I think everybody's going to wind up loving this new "skin" or "layout" or whatever it's being called within the first fiscal quarter just like they wind up doing on Facebook every other week.
The guys who design these changes tend to know better than we do when it comes to what works. I, for one, find this a bit more functional and desirable.
Anticipating the next change and the immense rage that will follow it.