I assume the reason for not collapsing the left-bar is to draw visibility to Teams and increase conversion rate. The reason for standardizing design is to save on development/design costs.
Thank you.
No sarcasm. Any way you can stay (become?) profitable without lowering your ad quality or charging me money is fine by me. Stack Overflow provides a valuable service free of charge. Stack Overflow needs to make money to continue providing said service.
There's no such thing as a free lunch and I think this path forward is better than the alternatives.