Admit it up and realize your newer page designs are horrendous!
There is so little space left for the actual article because of comments popping up from the icon on the left side of the page and laying over the actual content of the story. If people want to read comments, they can go to the bottom of the article for them. Your banner at the top takes up too much space. The pages are on sensory overload and I resent having to turn off every video. Gifs in comments are enough to send someone into an epileptic fit with no way of stopping the animation. Make it simple and sleek and stop the automatic playing of videos. Nobody likes them as you can tell by the many other comments about them. I'm tired of clicking and rearranging everything just so I can read an article and not have to have the browser open to full screen.