Well, design-wise it doesn't look as good either... I must say the version on the Crowd Supply page looks amazing, and this one is comparatively plain. But still much better than just a laser-cut box, and if the layered design wasn't feasible at the scale it needed to be, there's only so much you can do about that.
Plus this is much less wasteful of materials - this looks like something you could cut on a 12"x12" sheet of plywood, whereas the previous design required much more (because you couldn't really use the leftover pieces from cutting the inner layers).