Lies, all lies.

The J2Ov2 layout is archaic web stuff. The HTML code is horrible, it's all bloated tables with barely any CSS. A lot of the overhead when coding new J2O features comes from dealing with the layout.

Navigation wise it's a huge mess, when I'd first seen it I literally got lost, and some people still have trouble browsing J2Ov2 IIRC. The header itself is an 800x200 area of confusing links and images-as-links. The sidebar takes up 20% of the horizontal space, in exchange for a few links that have their counterparts in the main bulk of the page most of the time.

It's also a pain to get any new features visible to the new user. The header is images-as-links, which makes it practically impossible to add any new buttons. We had to resort to putting a dropdown menu on the button that reads "Other", that's how horrible it is.

You say that J2Ov2's layout is better because it has custom stylesheets? They don't even work most of the time because the layout is so reliant on images.