I'm not going to come and blurt out a bunch of hooey about symbolism or messages, but I'm not a fan of the white space as others have mentioned. My first instinct to change it would be, like, a hearty woodgrain table, but as a disclaimer that idea might be terrible.
And unwrapped on the back...
Sure seems like there's some really awesome computing at work here. Combining some sort of raytracing with a very good search algorithm ... I guess? I'd love to have a local demo to see and believe.
Slowbro is slow to respond to this thread, but I just wanted to say I'm also extremely happy about this change. Steam can finally stop being the butt of our gaming group's jokes when we're getting lag.