User blog comment:Sannse/Your First Look at the New Wikia/@comment-474870-20100819181623/@comment-168424-20100820004826

A little over a year is not long-ish. Lets take a great product like Photoshop. They don not make radical interface changes every year, they do it like every 3 or more years. That's because radical changes slow you down unless they are super intuitive (which most radical changes tend not to be).

The real question is: Is this new skin really at beta level? If it is, then it's mostly "what you see is what you get."