In my opinion, they're doing everything right here. They're not changing designs because some designer disliked the color or popup animations. They're arranging their functional components to align with what they're finding (experimentally) is most usable for their user base.
I don't know whether this comes off like I'm complaining. That's not what it's supposed to be. (I actually liked the [original] redesign announced over the summer.) I'm just here to explain what I saw.
We are never done. We will always be iterating and improving. Much of the feedback we received confirmed assumptions we already had but wanted to test, such as collapsing the navigation, improving breadcrumbs, etc. Other feedback was new and we were challenged to solve those. Everything that was added to this release will undergo a round of user testing and be subject to iteration.
It does not sound like a complaint at all @carussell, thanks for the feedback.
Edit: Do the images in the earliest post display for others? I see image missing placeholder icons.
EDIT: It looks like the images are attempting to load from an old Wordpress blog which is no longer around, with a quick search I couldn't seem to find anything with similar file names in the current website repository :(