I don't mind the new design, not great, but not bad either. An improvement I think.
What I think the real issue here is though, are templates that don't serve the reader. Nothing should be on the top of the page that we don't need our *readers* seeing. The fact that an article has a trivia section, or has too many inbound disambiguation links etc is important only for housekeeping reasons.
If someone is willing to cleanup trivia sections, they are probably very well aware of how the category system works.
If something is so bad we do want to have a disclaimer for readers that's fine (npov, verifiability, etc) but for some things I agree, it's just creep.
Nominate them for deletion, that's what that process is there for. :D