User blog comment:Susanolivia/Fixed Width, Sidebar, and the Removal of Monaco/@comment-1073312-20101020174100/@comment-1025281-20101026122713

I understand your case, particularly so because it applies to my wiki. We discovered that our infoboxes now take up a lot of the content room, and I think some are suggesting now that we narrow infobox pictures down to account for that. Some of our templates are now more squished as well, but there has been nothing major.

However, yours and my case belongs in the "sensible" category, the kind of disappointment that is understandable. My annoyance lies in some of the links to examples of "Wikia's broken my design!" failures - tables and templates that clearly were never going to be under 750 pixels wide. That's just unreasonable.