On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 08:03, Jonathan Corbet <corbet-ft@lwn.net> wrote:
You folks are working hard on this, and there's little value in me sitting
on the sidelines with complaints you're not interested in hearing.

I pinged the design team this morning and they agreed that making the default font size larger without giving a UI element to move it back is something which needs a remedy. Jon McCann opened a bug here; from the tenor of the discussion my guess would be that it will make it before 3.0 is released:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643503