User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: August 31, 2016/@comment-1853435-20160901194933/@comment-1853435-20160902140719

"We've had a variety of requests for the new diff styling in the past"

I'm not sure how many constitutes a "variety" but it doesn't sound like a lot. So because a "variety" of people requested this, the rest of us have to suffer with this garbage? On a lighter background it might not look so bad, but on darker ones it's absolutely horrendous, I find it hard to look at for more than a few seconds. Hassat Hunter posted an excellent example above.

The frustrating part is, you convoluted a process that was working perfectly fine, it was simple yet effective. Why couldn't you just make this an optional feature? Then the "variety" of people who seem to prefer to do things the hard way could do so while the rest of us continued to use the easier method that's been working perfectly fine all these years?