I can't imagine moving forward without the iconic glass rail.
The downstairs seating and sightlines are okay. Upstairs, not so much. All in all, I find the place place just adequate and worse than the average D1 basketball facility. It has always struck me that we get to watch really awful football in a nice facility while we get consistently good basketball in a below average one. I am happy, however, that the JAR is superior to the Brimfield Animal Husbandry and Agriculture Center. That place has awful sightlines from the GA seats.
Heck, the Canton Civic Center, which is a dump built in the early 1950s, is a superior basketball facility to the JAR and the the PCCC BAHAAC.