I don't mind her on the cover - although the smile says 'happy' but the arms say 'defensive', so while the pose is great for showing off jewellery, I get a mixed message from it. But it's a different pose, it's something new, and the colour scheme makes it all feel very clean and light.
I've also noticed that they're tried to rein in the sprawl of the cover text in recent months, I think mainly by reducing the size of the text, because they still do manage to put some fairly long sentences on the front.