I hated the change the minute it came out, and I still hate it. However I've achieved at least a statemate with it. First I started using the UK version which brought me back to the old way, which frankly did everything exactly correct. Except now my conversions are in metric, my suggestions are localized, etc - but that's a small price to pay to have the rest of it work the way it's supposed to. For those times I need to use the US version, I installed Greasemonkey on Firefox for the sole purpose of collapsing the left sidebar. And after a couple of days Google did finally put back the expandable RSS feed stories and got rid of the two line summary. So here we are a few days later and I've got a semi-working home page again. However it's one of those things that I never had to think about before, but now I have to babysit to see what else changes for the worse. This is not how a company is supposed to treat it's users. So much for "don't be evil".