User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/New Page and Article Headers: Official Release Date/@comment-3387274-20170613142317

I can see why this might have been a technically better design if wikia had had it from the start (page creation and wiki activity given prominent seperate buttons does seem like it'd be easier to use), we've invested a lot of time in making our wiki clear to use despite the initial quirks, as well as working with the original menu design. We'd made it easier to find wikia activity, and from there get help if needed, and that allowed us to solve any issues the original menu had. Which meant it was instead a nice, unobtrustive, navigation tool,as it should be.

This update has subsequently ruined all of that, and the top menu now looks horrendously ugly. The changes to the order of the buttons has made a lot of things harder to find, and trying to track things down again is proving frustrating.. And that's just the first impressions. I'm really not confident in how this new update is going to pan out, or how it will perform on our wiki. Accesibility to older users has been hurt somewhat, and in our case not even newcomers reap any benefit from it.

At this point I'd guess the option to decline the update and revert to the older version is too much to hope for, as would be a chance to block further changes. I'm open to any coding suggestions for getting as close to the original design as possible though.

And in terms of feedback.. well, making large scale interface changes without warning is absurdly bad practice and sours any positive effects the update might have otherwise had. It is unbelievably frustrating working on anything where a nebulous devellopment team spontaneously and permenantly rearanges everything without warning and considers it an improvement. I sincerely hope this happens less in future.