In reply to cfc.

I am not impressed:
As these "fixes" should have been implemented BEFORE the relaunch - the feedback timespan was about 9 months or so, at least 6 I guess.

The "Advanced" view as additional page was just launched about 24 hours ago, a lot of comments here for this post, are almost a week or so old. Just consider this.

A lot of main critics from users and plugin authors alike still remain:
1) stupid, useless "Read more" toggles --> a usability desaster on desktop and mobile alike
2) the screenshots linking/browsing is a desaster: everyone expects for such slider/carousel appearance the opening in a lightbox, users are "trained" to expect this behaviour; and it was mentioned numerous times in the feedback saison months agon...!
3) The long content of the one pager overall: so bring back the tabbed layout, make it usable again, and visually appealing at the same time
4) the issue with plugin banners is this, that a lot of plugin authors still have the former default size of the banners packaged in their /assets/ folder --> this needs to be updated by the plugin authors themselves, it's not fault of the team, entirely --- However, they could have been informed plugin authors weeks or months ago about such an upcoming change. Nothing happened that way, and this is a fault of the team, in my opinion.
5) The attitude of launching such a half-baked thing with ignoring lots of feedback is an issue on its own. But "praising" this as an improvement, especially when considering the UX issues on mobile, this just left me frustrated...!

However, to make the directory a bit more useful again for me on the desktop I created a Userstyle! You can use this in any desktop browser with the "Stylish" add-on (works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera): https://userstyles.org/styles/140944/wordpress-org-plugin-directory

The problem with this is, that Userstyles don't work on mobile yet, so here are all the issues laid out above more "prominent" and therefore hurting...!