So Kodi’s default skin has been changed from good ol’ Confluence to the All New & Improved Estuary. Some love it, some hate it– deal with it. That’s a pointless discussion I’m not interested in. 
What I am curious about is: were there technical reasons for replacing Confluence with Estuary?
I do note that many who installed Confluence from the repo on Kodi 17 complain about settings that have disappeared after a reboot, especially (but not exclusively) on the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3. I’m having the same problem, as well as serious stability issues that I suspect may also be skin related. (I’m currently using Xonfluence).
Or was Estuary simply a style choice in line with, say, Windows 8’s Metro interface and similar styles?
Just curious… 