UI changes in general are something to expect, but if you're just going to disregard user feedback then you can't claim to respect users.
Personally every other release they remove features I like and make arbitrary UI changes. The only reason I'm still complaining and not using something else is because I don't like the alternatives either.
I was just pointing out that the grandparent was conflating their opinion being ignored with all users' opinions being ignored
The proper solution to this would be to have different modes if this is so critical. To their credit they did put in a "compact" mode after beta, but this is explicitly "unsupported" and even then still has more padding than "large" mode in the old UI.
> and even then still has more padding than "large" mode in the old UI.
This is objectively false. Your hyperbole undermines your argument.
Know what I can't do on any of my machines? Touch the screen.
Decreased UI density doesn't just help touchscreens.
There's Vivaldi, and it too uses HTML for its interface, but the team doesn't seem to care about UI performance at all.
> There's Vivaldi, and it too uses HTML for its interface, but the team doesn't seem to care about UI performance at all.
Thanks to that, Vivaldi also actively supports CSS tweaks like Firefox. They do indeed care about UI performance and work towards fixing it... The 3.7 update really improved its UI responsiveness. Still, it feels slower than Chrome/Brave/Firefox.