The new car makes the older car look outdated.....as weird as the rear end is, i love how they made the rear haunch quite pronounced, gives it some beefiness.
I dont think the spindle is going away anytime soon.
Big, bold, brash grilles are in now and Lexus has finally made the spindle shape work on their cars (minus the old SUV's like the LX and GX which dont work...they were just pasted on, and the newer SUV's like UX and RX just needs some tweaking.)