Dear Google – Why is Gmail now ugly?

Gmail is still my goto email solution – I can use it to aggregate accounts, tie into all my other Google-centric services and access it from pretty much anywhere. But lately with all of the interface changes that Google has been releasing Gmail pulled a real ugly one (IMO – your milage my vary).

When you are viewing your inbox the border changes from this:

To this? Why does the border need to disappear when viewing the message?

It leaves the “Inbox” tab hanging out on it’s own when before it was nicely joined to the border. And why can we not have the *New* interface in Gmail yet anyways – we have it for Google Calendar:

I do like a constant look and feel to things when I use them day-in, day-out. But like I said, your milage may vary.
-R