User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/We're updating the look of categories to improve your community's SEO/@comment-5558012-20181108175852/@comment-25295528-20181109152327

I have to agree here, unfortunately. Its a visual eye-soar and having to click "Classic Categories" is another step.

I also can't help but notice categories are failing to register images used in the "image" field of portable infoboxes, meaning the "second" image on the page that isn't using that field, be it in the infobox or not, is used for the page thumbnail. This makes some page thumbnails very misleading when browsing categories.