I want to be clear that I am not opposed to change in principle. Things evolve, interfaces change, and familiar arrangements inevitably become different. My concern is not with change itself, but with the overall effect of these particular changes.

I understand that change can bring improvements, and I am not suggesting that everything should remain exactly as it was. Nor am I saying that every aspect of the current situation is negative. I simply don't think the overall result has been an improvement from my perspective.

I feel that, at this point, something really needs to be said about the changes.

I want to be very clear that I am not necessarily referring to any one particular change, because that would be far too narrow a way of looking at what is, in my view, a much broader and more difficult-to-define situation. The issue is not really one individual thing. It is the general nature of things. The overall direction. The feeling. The sense that, somewhere along the way, decisions have been made, things have happened, and we are now expected to simply accept the consequences of those decisions without necessarily being expected to have any particular opinion about them.

And I do, in fact, have an opinion.

It is not necessarily not a positive one.

I want to stress that this is not because, necessarily, I am opposed to progress, innovation, development, improvement, refinement, evolution, modernization, advancement, progress, enhancement, upgrade, update, revision, modification, alteration, change, shift, variation, difference, novelty, newness, invention, creation, production, construction, assembly, arrangement, organization, structure, system, method, process, procedure or any of the other broadly positive, or perhaps negative, concepts that are usually associated with making changes (positive ones). I am perfectly capable of appreciating that things necessarily cannot remain exactly the same forever. I understand that circumstances evolve. I understand that approaches change. I understand that what made sense previously may not necessarily make sense, or not make sense, indefinitely (or definitely).

That is not the point.

The point is that there is a difference between change occurring and change being *good*.

There is also a difference between something being different and something being better.

These distinctions seem increasingly important.