Us Mods have no knowledge of, nor control over, any updates to the forum so we are all in the same learning mode. Best we can do is tell the site admins what we think and request edits.
The Mods and Admins are also chatting about some of these things, so more info may post up from the overall site admins on requests and options. I'll suggest they post up some kind of response to let members know of the options about the classic view (there is a post in the area I linked to about it, but maybe they can address member comments about other sites having a classic mode)