... should be forced to visit all the business lounges in airports and ensure their design works with the tired and overworked computers with marginal bandwidths in these lounges.

They may be able to get the servers powerful enough to serve all the cutesies in this new format fast enough but when travelers who haunt these message boards are no longer able to download the huge page content at each click when at a lounge or on a dialup from a hotel room, then the designers have lost the plot.

Just looking at the page where I am typing this, it is almost 50k in size not including the graphics!!!!! It includes the posts in the thread below it. Why would I want to wait for the page to download the posts in the thread to reply when I am on a dialup?

Not to be overly critical of a free resource but feature creep never solved a scaling problem.