User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-17753176-20150131230927/@comment-5645428-20150201021108

The old header bar looked a lot better visually, naturally because it mirrored the wiki's set theme, but it too was flawed. A search bar is a lot more userful than global categories for finding interwiki content, not to mention how much space 'Entertainment', 'Games' and 'Lifestyle' took up.

An update was needed, but its initial product in the form of what we currently have introduced its own flaws. Now, we'll be receiving another update, and that's the logical progression in developing a new feature. If people feel an old feature was better, there would probably be reasons for it. Those reasons should be acknolwedged so the new feature can productively build upon the old one and thus convince people that they prefer the new one. That then is a success for everyone.