@matt what about the third option: the kind of person that always complains they are not covered by the options?

@matt: as a designer i value simplicity but while being more legible, the right columns completely lack identity. I you pinch your eyes they all look the same ^^

@matt
These are your usual design trend-cycles. Wait a decade and you will see some useless hipster designer make the argument that a line of text isn't the right way to go and you need to angle all the text with 10 degrees and all the other sites will follow suite.

As you pointed out, its the same for inoffensive corporate illustrations. Its imho everything really.