It's a thing of beauty. Simple, functional, information dense, logical layout. I don't use craigslist, but pulling it up, it is immediately obvious what needs to be done and how to do it.

Hero images are eyesores.

It's a thing of pure, unadulterated beauty in this day and age.

No. It's certainly an eye sore.

Is it?

I've never had any problem using Craig's List and it just works. There are no hamburgers, no material design, the dropdowns look like dropdowns, and the links look like links. I love Craig's List! It's one of the only shopping/marketplace websites I don't dislike.

My philosophy is that if you want it to have fancy CSS and skeuomorphic buttons, use a CSS extension and make your own CSS for it. Even better - use a browser that lets you edit a page's CSS in WYSIWYG (if there are any).

If Craig's List was suddenly revamped and looked like Amazon or Newegg, I would no longer use it.

agreed it is eyesore.

but, it is lightweight it is responsive and it works