Huh?

Perhaps I've been a bit slow on the uptake, but what changes are so terrible in the new LJ? I saw some people in my flist were very angry and decided to switch over to Dreamwidth, but I don't see a lot of things different. Perhaps I haven't navigated all the aspects of my journal in a while, so I'm mystified. 

I went to lj_releases to see what was had been updated, and it looked like margins and comments were a big thing as well as Preview. I was upset about this last one because LJ is a bitch to format when it comes to posting stories, and my Preview option has saved me a lot of headache in the past. But I look down at my page, and my Preview button is still there. My subject lines on my comments are still there.

And what's this with margins? Apparently they were done away with, and I do agree that expanding the reading space is actually deleterious to reading because we all like the 'book' format of wide margins and a relatively small block of text. However, I don't see that with my journal. Another issue is having to wait for all the icons to load before choosing one, but I don't seem to have a problem with that either. Is it because I only have 15?

Are the updates only to the Paid accounts, or has my LJ not been overhauled yet? I'm very confused here.

EDIT: Okay, I tried to comment on LJ Releases and know exactly what everyone is talking about now in terms of comments and icons. What the FRAK. Subject lines break up the annoying reply thread hierarchy that happens in long discussions. One thing could be a Gmail approach where the threads automatically break into a new thread (with a new subject line) after a certain number of reply comments.