Honestly, I don’t think craigslist should change. The fact that it hasn’t, and the reason craigslist and myspace are so successful is that they are user-centered, not beauty-centered.

Sometimes I wonder whether typographers and snobs* are the only people who get any value from beautiful type.

Of course, people get value when you solve major readability problems or make the visual cues more useful or informative, but in this case, the redesign seems to be mostly about aesthetics.

So my question is: why bother?

* meaning, people who need to be surrounded by “nice things”