Green server UI/Feedback?
The current UI is junk.
The fact that this:
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is as close as one can get to having the actual appearance of the classic UI, should be rationale enough for the no-custom-UI policy to NOT exist. There are 3rd party alternatives that are much nearer to the original classic, perhaps just include those in the patches and enable them by default, rather than the this awful iteration you've given us.