@jflood I've noticed the same thing, not just with this product, but most products on the market today. There's a trend in the IT field to continually update products to make them less user friendly and in so many cases, helpful features are also removed.
I'm personally fed up with it. It doesn't matter what you purchase, let them continually tweak enough and it's going to change for the worse. I also turn "automatic updates" off when I can.
I often wonder if the managers who allow these changes actually use the products themselves?
I also preferred the original interface. I measure software user efficiency by the number of required user actions executed for a specific function. Less is always better for the user. Menu/Desired function is always the most efficient.