User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Design your own photo galleries/@comment-13301-20100719192539

Kirkburn, The addition of the lightbox feature was to allow the user who want to view an enlarged version of an image without the need to go to the image description page. So people can view big images on request while the normal images are left small to reduce bandwidth consumption for both wikia servers and users.

Also, galleries were made thinking on their previous default width to fit on the pages where they are placed. If people really want their widths changed, they could change them individually, as they could do with the old gallery system. But now that wikis have grown and have lot of galleries, we are forced to live with larger images in galleries, or run a bot to change them all.

From my point of view, apologies are good, but better if they come with a revert on the latest changes and not releasing them without testing them.