The previous X was just a red X, without taking into account the ambience, now it does and is more pronounced, if that makes it easier for newcomers, sure. Though with blue colour highlight/ambience it is still drowned in my opinion. Hopefully later on there will be an option to revert to the more minimalistic/background silica, not too big fan of the pronounced features myself (and quite a few threads on tjc about it). Eye candy is the least problem now really