I agree it looks tacky and can cause problems. Thing is, Etsy doesn't care about whether or not it's good for handmade (they don't care about handmade), or the description had something the buyer needed to know, or some other detail. Etsy is testing a way to get people buying things and checking out quicker.
Someone types in 'gift for baby girl' and clicks 'add to cart' on all the ones they like. They read the title, see the pic = ok everything they need to know. Remove the ones they don't want and their shopping is done. It's a vending machine approach but then Etsy wants to prioritise products that don't require explanation. They want us to sell things that barely even require a title.
If it ends up bad for your shop, Etsy doesn't care. For every shop that falls behind from poor reivews (even if the seller was not at fault) there are half a dozen other shops to take it's place. This is thunderdome and the best shops are the ones that can pump it out in the easiest-to-understand way possible. Apparently.
