People like the stability and minimalism here
What needs to change?
I appreciate the stability and minimalism too.
Personally I'd like to have some controls for the frontpage algorithm. For example, I check HN pretty infrequently, so I'd prefer to see older stuff (currently I use Algolia for this here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth). I'd also like to see controversial.
Front page submissions for a given day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front
Most active current discussions (popular controversial ones tend to end there): https://news.ycombinator.com/active
(from the lists page https://news.ycombinator.com/lists)
See also:
>A List of Hacker News's Undocumented Features and Behaviors