Maybe not universal, but overwhelmingly negative.
Reminds me of a poll @Erik created many years ago to find a new name for what ended up being called “daily”. Substantially more than half of the responses favored correspondence, but Erik didn’t like the term.
I like this site, but there’s a long history of admins making choices that go against what users want.
The redesign has not had a universal response of dislike, there have been changes based on feedback (whether or not one feels the changes are meaningful is another thing), and staff do take feedback seriously.
On the latter point, there's going to be conflicting feedback and site design and product requirements that may not allow all feedback to be considered.