Font Size in Update...Really? I mean REALLY???

Dear Skype...I thought the tiny font absurdity really could not be surpassed. But - O.M.G. - you've again outdone yourselves.
My Skype just "updated" (cough) and the fonts are even SMALLER. Are you kidding me, seriously!?!? The contact list and main window area are now approximately 1 pt. font. ONE POINT. If that.
This is about the 6th "update" where the contacts and main window fonts have shrunk. WTF?
This is NOT acceptable, and any programmer with the IQ of a half dead barnacle could EASILY fix via code tweaks in half a coffee break. Utterly astonishing that instead, they SHRUNK it. Again. See the image below, of the legible menu bar, but the almost invisible window text. Good effing luck reading that one.
Again I ask, why can we so easily adjust fonts on the stupid forum, but not on Skype? Why do you refuse to fix it each "update" and instead go smaller and smaller?

Actually, the fonts are larger, the 6.21 uses 8 pts Tahoma (mine does atleast) and the 7.x uses 10 pts <something>. You are free to change the fonts and size in tools > options > Chat & IM > chat apperance > change fonts (does'nt get any easier than that).
Keep in mind that people generally want the smallest font they can live with, to cram the most into the chat window etc.

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