User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-65.49.68.190-20150130051626/@comment-452-20150131134653

It's a standard ploy when haggling: make the first offer more extreme than you would accept, so you can change the offer so that it seems you have compromised.

There will still be people who preferred the old style, or who want it to be smaller, but now Wikia can, and will, say "But we compromised". "We listened to your feedback, and made adjustments accordingly."