I think the transition has been pretty straightforward for how I use the site. Congratulations Sean! The downtime was pretty short, and the new version does looks mostly similar to me.
New layout is fine for me. I get back the recent posts. We have very large and very high resolution screen today and showing everything is a good thing.
I'm glad the layout has remained largely the same and appreciate the work put in. But I will say that I did prefer the look of the site before the update, even if it wasn't a big difference.