Too many cooks, too many ideas, no central planning, changing metaphors and duplicating concepts "on the fly". These are all symptoms of a loss of leadership from the top down that have left us floundering for over three years with these types of things.

The politics of how these decisions are made is also troubling, because the folks who make them do not seem to be actively in the business of using the software to service live customers....likely because of the move to React and all the complexity that requires "advanced" developer skills to contribute in these matters vs. previous php/html/css/js.

With non-consumer facing developers, left to create and change the mechanics without a top-down management from experienced marketers/Ui testers, while the rest of us are trying to build solutions for paying civilian customers... there is this. Someone has changed the position of the gas pedal, the clutch and the brake pedal while we are all driving the car.

Solution? Put a HALT to any dramatic changes such as this until or unless the actual community has an opportunity, in a public way (not via the closed and rather snarky development boards)...to react to and comment on how such changes would be useful/helpful or harmful.