KEEPING IN MIND that I generally hate people who whine every time every thing changes,

as someone who is fairly invested in Google Reader, it pains me that this has been a UI step backwards.

It's lot less usable; defaulting every link to black, like the rest of the interface, makes scanning for links really painful, and there's still a good 130px of useless interface chrome that is taking up space for no good reason.

Blargh! Looks like I'm going to be loading some custom stylesheets very soon.