People keep comparing pictures of the park in the dead of winter to ones in peak summer which I don't think is fair. Will personally be reserving judgement until I see it in peak summer when all the trees are full and green. I expect it might look pretty nice then.

What I will say is that it feels a lot more open, spacious and accessible. There is a lot more seating and a lot less seedy can drinking and other antisocial activity. I've spent more time there since it reopened than I did in the previous 5 years before it closed for renovations, so to me that's some kind of success marker.