Bring back the old WSO format

I'm not sure why WSO  can't grasp some realities about their site and realize that some of the updates and changes they implement (design, censorship, etc.) only distance the users that made this website what it is and a forum that caught the attention of others (because of their comments/humor, their advice, valuable threads, etc.). I mean, personally, what made me come back to WSO in the past years was reading some interesting comments and some more wiser comments by older users - nothing more, nothing less.

But some preliminary points to get to my idea:

• The site is valuable only as long as there are users with enough experience to answer/guide/comment and provide thoughtful ideas/perspectives on different questions about careers/industry/etc.
• What makes this site what it is is also scrolling through old threads from years ago and seeing how things have changed.
• The familiarity makes one use it more often and more comfortably.

So, I can't see how WSO takes into account those 'realities' because the updates that were implemented lately to "modernize" WSO only devalue the forum because the real value of WSO resides in the past (old users, valuable threads in place, already in-place courses, etc.) and not in some type of modernization/financial educational revolution. This past should be maintained not through change and new additions, but solely through maintenance and fixing bugs - if that's achieved, the new users' part will take care of itself.

I get the mentality behind those updates: Wanting to attract new users and maybe make them buy some of the products, but each decision to attract new users just distances away the older ones (and maybe the latter are more helpful to attract new users than changing the interface, just saying).

If you don't believe my point, just take a look at the most-rated threads in the last 72 hours, because they're all #!%&$%#!% non-sense. I just can't cringe enough and feel a sense of disappointment looking through some of those threads. Also, the humor became so dry since a woke macha hippie BuzzFeed editor remarked WSO, that WSO just seems soulless.

So maybe my point is that the valuable or funny comments/threads are disappearing because of those updates, and instead, cringe threads/comments are on the rise/becoming more apparent because there is nothing to counterbalance those.