To me this feels like someone had too much of their new iOS settings page. A first glance at those screenshots tell me it is all just very superficial: * more whitespace * bigger icons * gradients everywhere About 10% of this screen real-estate is of any real use to the writer. Another admin redesign is not what's going to make WordPress better. If I take the bigger picture above out of consideration, I can value George's original take on this as something fresh and not seen before.