It's in human nature for people to be adverse to change, particularly when nothing seems to be wrong with the old ways of doings things.
But in saying that, this new layout is absolutely terrible.
It is LESS user friendly (and I sssume part of the purpose of changing things is to become MORE user friendly), off-putting to the eye, and it is ridiculous to have adverts phenomenally larger than the actual posts....they are much more likely to turn people away than encourage them to look.