>Some companies would be better off with less bored designers.

The comment you are replying to says they laid off 80% of them!

They laid off the original staff.

Bending Spoons has own teams taking care of the acquired companies. I read about it here a while ago. I am pretty sure the re-design was done by one of those teams. It's pretty close to the new design of MeetUp. I am talking about those ppl.