Works in Waterloo: an improvement or just a cash making scheme?

The Evening standard continues with their objective questionable journalistic, er, standards and regurgitates yet another press pack, this time from Network Rail for a change:
Waterloo station turns trendy as Carluccio's, Corney and Barrow, and Thomas Pink open up on new concourse - Transport - News - Evening Standard

Just to put things in perspective:
1. On congestion, Network Rail have made it worse by making the underground concourses longer and shut outside of peak hours

2. The Eurostar platform has been mothballed for the last 5 year... with four EMPTY platforms -quite a disgrace.

3. Finally, are they going to pull down that hideous screen/wall between the concourse and the plaforms? There's no reason Waterloo can't be as beautiful as the Gare du Nord in Paris.

To me it seems the only goal of this revamp is to provide more retail space, in other words it's a cash generating scheme that adds no benefits to the commuters.


Previous posts on Water-loo station: 

• Waterloo plans mean no end of misery for commuters
• Waterloo: more Boris Bikes but still no sign of life for the Eurostar old platforms
• Waterloo plans mean no end of misery for commuters
• Londonist: What Next For Waterloo? 
• The Boris bike vs. the French vélib -unfair comparison?
• What if those who govern us had a long term view about strategic infrastructures?
• When will TfL realise they need more BorisBikes at Waterloo?