User blog comment:Sannse/Important Updates on Wikia’s New Look/@comment-872086-20100928222059

I think I just figured out why you have *really* been doing this beta test. (After all, it's become obvious that it's not because you want to improve the new skin.) It's so that you can figure out the features that are hated most. Then you "protect" them, so they can't be customized away.