I have something similar for my laptop, called f.lux.
I don't like the tweak much, but that's a matter of individual taste when it comes to design. When it comes to intent.... let's just say I think it was successful. I think Knight wanted to break the paradigm... and he did. For the good as well as the bad, though. He pretty much leveled the playing field, and I think those on the lower rungs feel a little better about that overall, and maybe some of the old/big timers might be feeling a little like Samson post-Delilah. But that leveling came at a loss for me at a personal level, it detached something somehow, severed the past from the present. What with old threads and posts gone, an entire history basically unavailable to bring back by those who remember it... the sense of community seems severed, somehow. Yes, it'll coalesce again in a different form, maybe better, maybe worse.