User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Layout Changes: Breakpoints and Typography/@comment-24110748-20150523050904/@comment-1038387-20150524225952

"I've never heard of anyone complaining about the old layout, it looked great on all devices before."

Well, I switched to XL two or so months ago, and the first thing I saw was how ugly everything was. Everything was stretched. Galleries which were formatted for 4 in a row suddenly showed 6. Character portals suddenly showed more whitespace than images. Paragraphs that used to represent a decent vertical chunk of text were suddenly much smaller, and long sentences are a pain to read. Images that were carefully placed evenly in a large chuck of text were now piled on top of eachother because the paragraphs they accompanied were cut in half.

Big screens are great for gaming, but not optimal for reading.