I'm sure most of my Watchers under 2 years of residence on dA are the ones marking that off. The other cluster are ones who don't write Journals, and non-Premium Members who don't use skins, or have Groups to maintain. (And among my Watchers, this is the majority). Those that use Skins instantly had them broken. There are a couple people who freakout about these being easily searchable (you could always do it via Google, but now it got really easy). There are a smaller number of people that in principle do not like these being treated as deviations or "News". There are people like me who instantly flipped out at the interfacing and just the shear idiocy that they still can't figure out how to actually appease the writers.
News was something that already could be submitted by random users. So the ability to practice ones Journalism was available. Now we get more "baw" Journals in the News. Not an improvement.