Oh I know it's a problem, I just personally don't find it too big of a problem, so am a little bewildered at some of the scathing comments. But scathing comments shouldn't surprise me. xD I hope they do find a way around it.. maybe automatically making the sponsored layout look like the LJ default when a normal paid user looks at it? Unless that's way too complicated or something, I'm not that advanced in web development. xD

But if it is REALLY about making paid users see ads, like some of the more paranoid people are saying, then I'd start to actually get annoyed. >.>

If those Gwen Stefani/HD layouts are examples of the kind of layouts you'd have, I'd actually be pretty happy! They're cute, and the ad isn't incredibly obnoxious.