V7 is (like v6) a common thing - change for making changes, not change for improvements.

[-] HUGE LACK OF PERFORMANCE!!! - v6 was very slooow, but this is the new "quality"; my not-so-old Pentium M 2.0GHz gets busy at 100% (firefox.exe: 80-100%, no plugins) for few seconds with every page load (performance was also an issue in v6...) and browsing dA is now pain in the ass... Low responsiveness, CPU continuously heavy loaded, opening every few new pages (i.e. new devs form devwatch, nice devs on main page, etc.) takes dozens of seconds, every page is overloaded with tons of useless scripts (some shade here, some widget there, some pop-up elsewhere... that's really irritating!)... And you even CAN'T disable JavaScript/JScript on DeviantArt, because then it's almost impossible to browse and navigate...
[-] hidden some useful information previously shown on top of page (i.e. detailed number of messages from devwatch) - "because we save pixels" - and at the same time wasting space with poorly designed top bars (bar height: 50% text, 50% free space... + bigger than before font)

[+] nice, sleek new deviation page