User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-24110748-20150523050904/@comment-5558012-20150525002307

"I've never heard of anyone complaining about the old layout, it looked great on all devices before."
 * Many people complained about fluid because creating a nice layout with a variable content area at every screen size was near impossible. Tupka217's post above is a great example of one of the pains of the old layout.