The cleaner look isn't bad but it is impossible to resize the text, even when attempting manual zooming. This is certainly not the first site to be conceited about text size but come on: this is a site for reading things and who knows better than the user what font size will be comfortable for doing that? Also, I recall something in their blog about designing "for 2012" and focusing on "the user", so where exactly does screwed-up layout fit in to those goals?