Why does every software update make things slower and harder to find?

“After spending half a day in the Shopify admin, I am going to take a mental break because this is the most stressful thing I have encountered in all of my Shopify developer existence.”source ↗

“Dude who thought that "Mark as fulfilled" should be moved to top of the order and "Tracking ID" in the bottom of the order should be fired or at least criminal charged.”source ↗

“My team are just thoroughly frustrated by the new interface, and more generally by the collection of UI updates from the past 6 months. Everything seems to require 1 or 2 more clicks than before. That adds up fast.”source ↗

“I was updating products earlier and somehow ended up clicking around the admin for like 10 minutes just trying to do one simple thing”source ↗

“I hate how the total sales on the home screen rounds up to the nearest $k. You now need to click the down arrow in the top right to see your actual $ amount. For a small store, there is a big difference between a $1550 and a $2450 day!”source ↗

“shopify please stop randomly updating in the middle of the day and completely changing everything!!”source ↗

“An update just happened to me and now things I use hundreds of times a day are moved around, colours changed, text changed, bottom scroll bar is gone, it’s just AWFUL.”source ↗

“It completely ruins the workflow and I have to spend an hour finding everything.”source ↗

“Every update is just messing with UI that is fine to implement new Ai "features".”source ↗

“Uploading photos to listing takes extra clicks now. I have to upload to files now and then select to upload to listing. Adding tags is now extra clicks. Scheduling the release was also recently updated and adds an extra click.”source ↗

“I have been wanting Shopify to come out with a dark mode for years... this is not what I meant. It's even worse as the stark contrast between the black sidebar and white main content is actually painful for my eyes.”source ↗

“Bulk editing quantities on variants of a product. Used to be you could select all variants, tap the •••, and adjust all quantities at once. Now you need to go into bulk editor, enter a 0, and drag it down across all variants. It takes significantly more time”source ↗

“For me the admin panel is so fucking slow now. What used to load near instantly now takes an additional 2-3 seconds per click. That adds up fast throughout the day.”source ↗

“i swear every inventory update now somehow turns into a scavenger hunt through the admin,, half the frustration isn’t even the task anymore, it’s just trying to figure out where Shopify moved everything this week.”source ↗

“The new way for adjusting inventory is maddening! So many clicks, staff screws it up, and it takes forever. Like, imstead of +20 or -20, its, click this, then click imventoey removal, then ok, then save. And many times it freezes out.”source ↗

“Yesterday it was showing $3k at some point but the actual sales were $2550! That’s not the same!”source ↗

“Mine just switched over. It sounds silly but I am so sad. The new UI is terrible. And they do this in Q4! Their iOS app is broken yet they are fiddling around with colours and moving around the UI. 😢”source ↗

“Scheduling products. On product pages, the calendar icon used to be next to “online store”, click it, set your date/time. Hit Done. Now you have to click online store, wait for pop-up to load, click calendar icon, set time/date, hit done, hit done again to remove pop-up.”source ↗

“Adding tags to products used to just involve typing words with commas between, now you need to search and select them individually.”source ↗

“Everything requires extra clicks now, it’s so annoying”source ↗

“It’s genuinely so expensive to retrain muscle memory and in many cases now have to perform several extra clicks for each action.”source ↗

“The biggest change I can't stand is not being able to select all variants and edit quantities anymore.”source ↗

“Right?! :(( Hopefully this is a temporary reaction but I'm dreading logging in on Shopify now because of how much I hate the UI switch ugh”source ↗

“Also just had the update and it's dreadful. It's genuinely incredible how much effort they put into making everything worse.”source ↗

“mostly they move buttons around and make the platform worse, instead of working on the things we need to get more sales and be successful.”source ↗

“I fucking hate how they removed new page loads with embeded pop ups. Now if I need to open anything in bulk in new tabs its not feasible.”source ↗

“Yeah the white and black is really jarring. I keep clicking the sidebar thinking it's another window.”source ↗

“Yeah! Sidekick covering the admin content has been a huge pain point lately. It definitely disrupts the workflow when you're trying to edit quickly.”source ↗

“It's getting to the point where it's adding time to the docket with the amount of reloading pages/regenerating reports I have to do.”source ↗

“Now I'm wasting time clicking through menus trying to find my goddamn chart of accounts.”source ↗

“I constantly feel like I’m wasting time in QBO it’s so inefficient.”source ↗

“The new interface is the worst piece of garbage and so slow. Client work is taking longer and my time in my office has become more unfulfilling.”source ↗

“Why... why change the UI ever 6 months. Now I have to go through and repeatedly every single shortcut and widget I once had dialed in and stumble my way through whatever this nightmare is.”source ↗

“I swear every time they change the platform I want to scream. They're making me crazy.”source ↗

“The new view is utterly useless. All of my templates are set up for classic view. I don't like 'modern' view, it takes more time, the formatting is different and it's going to cost me time.”source ↗

“it's just way more complicated to use modern view. Everything is more effort, less intuitive. It's not without its merits but now I'm going to have to rebuild every single report I use”source ↗

“THE WHOLE FUCKING SCREEN FORMAT HAS CHANGED?!?!?!”source ↗

“Every time QBO decides to “improve the experience,” I end up playing hide-and-seek with the features I literally just used yesterday.”source ↗

“I'm going to have to re-learn a big swathe of this system now so I can get the data I need in the format I need it in”source ↗

“Extra drop down menus that add zero function and show me down. There's a loading time when i had line items that is painfully slow.”source ↗

“Now nothing is available on the main screen. I used to be able to make journal entry in 2 clicks, now 3 clicks and the JE menu goes away each time so I repeat 3 clicks to make another JE”source ↗

“My frustration with online and now modern view is that ill open a report, customize date ranges, columns, and filters. Click on a transaction to open it. When I close the transaction - sometimes it will go back to my customized report - but other times it glitches and goes back to the default view.”source ↗

“I can't see anything on my screen anymore, there are so many popups and filter ups that I'm working on a space the size of a post-it note. - I'm paying for this crap, I don't need MORE adds or more "helpful suggestions"...”source ↗

“I dont know who took the decision to replace Developer Console with VS Code on browser. Just consider the scenario where I need to quickly open an class and check class content in a new org.”source ↗

“In case of Web Console, I need to go to Org Browser, fetch the Apex Class mdt & then only I would be able to do that.”source ↗

“Running SOQL I get it as a output which I cant edit (but i was able to in dev console)”source ↗

“I have sampled the 'new' Dispatch Counsel and it is a terrible nightmare. Why do they have to mess with the one thing that works consistently?”source ↗

“I updated to WordPress 7 recently and the only change I don't like is how the Meta Boxes below the draft now has a pull over design.”source ↗

“Now, the meta box section has to be pulled using a bar which is annoying.”source ↗

“When did hubspot remove "quotes"?”source ↗

“I went to make one and now it's of course tied to an upgrade with AI but they say you can still do legacy quotes if you jump through some hoops which I didn't have the patience to read.”source ↗