For what it's worth, the regions give me exactly what I need: customization of design without writing or altering code. The 4.7 site that I'm working on has 7 regions, though some of them are not obvious from the presentation. One of them is currently unused, 3 are left-rail, content, footer. I also added 'login', 'header' (unused), 'inline', and 'right header'. On this page: http://rubybaboon.com/taxonomy/term/20 it lets me: - put the login in the upper right - put Tagadelic's tag cloud next to my site logo - put the 'popularity' ranking (custom module) above the content (that's the inline block). So I think the issue may be: many people don't need multiple regions. Or it may be that people don't know how best to exploit them. The hidden region I have would allow me to post a sitewide message at the top of all pages instantly. In 4.6, I had to use flexiblock or use snippets. No more. - Ken Rickard agentrickard