The new version home page is a little busy for me and it looks like it's designed for mobile users.
Thanks for mentioning the mobile part. Now I understand the rationale behind the V2 design and why it was giving me a headache.
V2 is beautiful (with the customizable accents), shows a few entries for each panel automatically (nice! But for some panels that aren’t customizable, this can be annoying), and makes it easy to see a lot of content in one scroll (without clicking on anything) if you have a narrow screen (try reducing the width by half).
V1 is more readable on a wide screen. V2 presents the panels on my screen in two columns (with the more “fixed” rightmost status, etc., column) on a wide screen. This is why it gave me a headache: the reading flow (from left to right) is interrupted. When I narrowed the width to just one column, my headache went away.

Do some of the folks who have really wide screens have even more columns on their screens?
TL;DR: V2 has some elements that I like, including three entry expansion for each panel and customizable accent, but the multicolumn presentation doesn’t work for me when I’m reading on a desktop in full-screen mode.
I am not sure whether it’s possible to optimize for both mobile and wide screens, but I know some websites need to maintain both mobile and desktop versions, which I imagine is a headache.