Hi,
Chad recently mentioned that based on opinion of wikimedia users, most of users prefer simple options, I guess we could create a feature, perhaps a checkbox "Display advanced options" to user preferences, move lot of current settings which aren't really supposed to be changed by people who do not understand how they work and implement various new options in that.
The advanced options could allow users to customize their recent changes feed and many similar pages, hiding certain links, or toggling various stuff. This would be great benefit for regular users since the option would be more clear and contain only stuff they likely want to change.
I think we should move following to hidden section:
Anything related to unified logins, new users do not need to use this Image size limit etc, most of regular users do not even understand what is this for Advanced options (whole section) Watchlist token, most of regular users do not even understand what is this for Search: Disable AJAX suggestions, Enable enhanced search suggestions (Vector skin only) Whole misc
Instead of these options we could fill the space with description of remaining options
When user check the "Advanced" they would of course see all options + some extra new options
I guess this would be benefit either for advanced users as well as newbies / computer illiterates