let's do one better:

how about a side-by-side comparison?  i've got the proposed changes installed on http://project.drupal.org, so folks can play w/ that and compare it to what we have now.

FYI, i think i'm also moving into the 'issue metadata above' camp  ;)  but i still think it's a smart idea to get a bit of community feedback before we change something that we just changed eight days ago  :)

note: you may need to clear your browser cache to get the display on project.drupal.org looking the way it's supposed to.

hunmonk