User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-25273487-20150519174014/@comment-126761-20150519181359

Smaller devices make up an increasingly large proportion of visits - at some point, we have to be proactive about preventing that becoming a bigger and bigger issue. While we certainly would love to satisfy everyone's desire for how the site should behave on their device, we do need to make some trade-offs.