Globe Goes for "g" Spot

Yesterday, the Globe debuted its new arts/style/etc. tabloid, "g", also known as "the women's pages" or "a lamer version of the Times' T," which at least gets to be capitalized. The launch of "g" was accompanied by several other changes, including folding Business into the Metro section, "expanded" Nation and World coverage in the main section, and adding more color throughout. The redesign cuts 24 pages per week from the paper. (Is that why they rolled it out on the 24th? Ha!)

A LiveJournaler reacted negatively, pondering the Globe's thought process in the rollout:

Might as well bury the Business section in the back of another section; after all, we don't have any marquee columnists or depth coverage for that anymore. Arts section? It is to laugh; we'll hide one arts article a week behind the movie listings so that people will remember that we still have two (yes, two!) paid movie columnists, and will hopefully ignore that all our arts articles now are either third-rate or cribbed from somewhere else. We'll keep the Metro section prominent so that people think we still have a decent local reporting staff, redo our columnists' portraits so people will think they're fresh, and hope they will ignore that almost the entire front section is now AP feedstock.

On the other hand, a Bostonist notes:

As a daily reader of the paper version of the Globe, I didn't find that much to complain about... I never read the Arts section or the Sidekick anyway, so the new "g" section doesn't disturb me one way or the other.. The Metro section and Business sections were both thin all along, so I also don't care that they are now one.

Even Adam Reilly says "g" "actually looks good," much to his surprise. He notes there seems to have been some compromise in rearranging national and world news, but will still seek out other sources for such information.

Did "g" hit a spot for you? Was it a good spot, or an uncomfortable spot? Did you even notice the redesign? Do you, like Universal Hub, just say "g whiz" about it all?