Y'know, I personally haven't really seen a lot of people calling the forum change bad. I think the majority of the critics see the website in its current stage and do not know things are not finished. When they hear that there are still changes to come, they are quickly silenced.
I think the changes to the forums are good to bring down bloat, and allow us to modernize as many leaders have said.
However, I think the biggest problem to this upgrade is people trying to make it just like pG. I can understand the desire to nostalgic, and want things back in the good ol' days. There's not much wrong with this, but when people say things like this:
bring back pg forums much simpler, just get the old website and change the names thats it
This personally hurts me, for reasons I'll explain. Around 3-4 years ago, I actually spent some time around the pG servers. They were the biggest in CSGO, and I did not know about the eGO servers. But, quite frankly, I did not like the pG servers or community. I thought they were bad, and when I stumbled upon eGO's server they were much better. I then loved our servers for the next few years, until they ran into tech problems. These tech problems were not getting fixed. And then, the same community that I did not like, merged with us out of the blue. Our servers would continue to stay broken until leadership shut them down, claiming we already had a working JB and TTT server (pG's). Of course, these were the exact server that I, and the large majority of eGO CS, did not like. This caused basically everyone in old eGO to quit, or move onto other parts of eGO: even member of Leadership. Frankly, I was right there with them. I spent the majority of the time since the merge away from the community. I have come back because of these newfound blocks of time that all of us have gained thanks to the virus.
So simply said, when the only complaints of a pG activist are, bring back forum, bring back website, and bring back name, it looks pretty petty. How about I do it from my side? Bring back servers! Bring back my friends! Bring back leadership, ATs, ECs, mappers! and keep pG away!
I understand there are sacrifices that are made, and things will need to move on. That can be seen by the lack of posts with the requests made above. And frankly, now I don't really want to be back there, I think it's too far gone. But, that's really why it pains me to see all of the new forum suggestion pages get flooded with suggestions of "I want to be pG again".