ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages

Just had a quick first look at the new pages.. is Microsoft thinking about setting up a Miles & More member scheme? All these new layouts have the same in common: so little content is actually visible and so much scrolling involved.

The amount of information I can put in the same amount of space on these new pages compared to the current pages is negligible. There is the large amount of space which is taken up be the site name and menu, then half of the page is taken up by an image placeholder which no one really needs and then I am forced to use a huge font size, one column layout... content really is not king here.

Is this the only layout available to us in the near future?