User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/New Page and Article Headers: Official Release Date/@comment-7971816-20170613141517/@comment-31834342-20170613150035

"Maintaining two versions, when one is a very outdated version, is not a practical idea."

Have you actually considered at any point that lots of people are likely to prefer the old version? Judging by the majority of the replies since this was rolled out, this is exactly the case. Do you actually think that people are going to prefer having to go to Special:Images or Special:Videos just to upload media?