Phil wrote:
They also organized articles around hiding spoilers. But more importantly, spoiler warnings just looked stupid. In a fundamental sense, they looked non-serious.
[I really, really don't want to beat this dead horse. No matter how much I agree with Ken that spoiler warnings should have stayed, I also agree with you, Phil, that he should get over it. But:]
Spoiler warnings looked non-serious TO SOME PEOPLE. In a fundamental sense, it was a POV issue. Some of us (though, obviously, not the majority) thought that (a) they looked perfectly fine and (b) WP:NOT a stodgy traditional encyclopedia and absolutely shouldn't worry about trying to look like one.
[But in the stated interest of not beating this dead horse, I do hereby solemnly promise not to reply publicly to anyone who responds to this post to point out how wrong they think I am for stubbornly clinging to a fondness for spoiler warnings.]