User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Prototype for a new article layout/@comment-68.108.23.15-20150119201044/@comment-1038387-20150119215142

Not that bad form. Websites change layout all the time. Like it or not, Wikia had at least the decency to announce it, and show examples, and offer feedback. Bad form would be just throwing it out there and not worrying about how it would affect individual wikis.

What they actually do isn't bad form, but doesn't win them a beauty prize. Especially on tables, this causes issues on many wikis. They encourage the use of Lua (and I checked, Lua templates work better in the new skin than non-Lua), but that would require admins to learn a completely new code language (as no way are they send the Community Support team round all the wikis to fix things). Not to mention their somewhat... passive solution for nested tables.