No matter what Google claims about the Gmail’s new look, there are people who just can’t deal with it’s new look. As of a few days ago, it seems like I’m forced to use the new look and there’s no way to go back.
I’ll save my rant for the future. The bottom line is that I don’t like it at all. If Google isn’t willing to fix it for me, I have to fix it for myself, right? Here’s how to “fix” it (for Google Chrome at least… but if you know how to inject custom CSS and JavaScript into pages, any browser should work.)