Do people actually like all of the overdesigned clutter to the point where it makes them not want to switch sites?
To me, the stripped down clarity on Lemmy is a feature. I remember back in the day when people flocked to Facebook from MySpace, in large part because they were sick of eye gouging customized pages and just wanted a simple, consistent interface. The content, not the buttons to click on it are the draw right?
All the real ones came from old.reddit anyway. Honestly with the amount of projects I see being started for these platforms I’d be surprised if we don’t eventually see customization option updates from instances to communities. That complaint has an expiration date IMO.