I'm about to fight people who are crying that Wikipedia's new changes are because of mobile phones.

this isn't better! this is just because you are used to it!

yeah this is users anytime something changes even slightly

it is in fact a fantastic design choice to keep the text in the middle, scaled to not have to physically turn your head to read and the contents table to the side.

especially with how fuckhuge monitors are getting!

The changes have certainly thrown me and I'm still in the whole "This is a thing I need to get used to" process, but

yeah, fight internet stretch

My first reaction was "Eugh redesign" and then immediately calmed down the second I realized the article I was looking at was centered and in a reasonable frame for reading without having to turn my head at all.

same, it's way better

Also moving the topics to the sidebar is good

now if only they'd make a dark mode

Sometimes design changes bother me and remove functionality but this one is thoughtful and good

I got the initial shock of the unfamiliar but I got over it fast!

The subheadings being available like that is so handy!

I'm torn on it tbh, since. Visually I very much hate it, but it's a massive improvement as far as page layout and ease of navigation is concerned.

(moving navigation to a sidebar is definitely a huge improvement, and also one of the "why did it take you this long???" kind at that)

Because accessibility. I would guess the current iteration requires more juice on connecting computers.

for their next trick I hope they go to Justified margins instead of Align Left when it comes to the body of the articles themselves.

Because it's a lot more obvious on the new layout and it bothers me like you would not believe.