If you constrained your influence to improving the graphical presentation then your work would be a valuable contribution worthy of much appreciation.

I'd love to give you an opportunity to retract that sentence. I think it implies more than is reasonable.

If you read a little more literally you will observe that this is strictly a compliment. You already know that I consider the overall effect of the changes is 'abominable' and so no new slight is conveyed. Instead, it puts the "agree that we obviously disagree" parts to one side so that approval of the remainder can be honestly expressed. The design changes are overall a solid step forward in elegance. To what extent you appreciate that indication of approval depends on, among other things, to how much of your identity is invested in all the user interface development you have been involved in verses the amount you are invested in the functionality and policy decisions.

(Note, by the way, that you opened up communication with grinding your teeth then proceeded with an emphasis on other-optimisation. This almost never works unless you have a strong indication that the other is fully emersed into your frame. But who cares? You don't need to engage with me or to control what expressions I make. You would lose almost nothing just by ignoring me and letting me answer CronoDAS's question then move along.)

Please, try hard to just win.

Be very careful what you wish for. Wedrifid when he is trying hard to win scares me. Even in the few seconds it took to write this paragraph he plotted several paths for victory. They were... creative.