Why Are We Still Missing the Basics? Bring Back 1Password 7 Mini Features to Quick Access

I've used and recommended 1Password for well over a decade and recently received an email saying I MUST upgrade to 1Password 8 from 1Password 7, but I find Quick Access in 1Password 8 a significant step backwards from 1Password 7 Mini.

Several genuinely useful features have disappeared, making everyday tasks unnecessarily cumbersome. 

I'd really like to see 1Password restore the following features through optional Quick Access preferences:

1. Menu bar positioning: Allow Quick Access to attach beneath the menu bar icon (MacOS) in the top-right corner, instead of in the middle of the screen (which covers existing work) exactly as it was previously in 1Password 7 Mini.

2. Alphabetical sorting: Let users browse entries alphabetically rather than relying on the current ordering (as it was in 1Password 7 Mini).

3. Larger, resizable window: Restore the spacious, information-rich list from 1Password 7 Mini instead of the cramped frustrating Quick Access interface.

4. Persistent window preferences: Remember the size and position of item windows (e.g. top right) rather than opening them in the center of the screen blocking my existing work flow.

5. Immediate item details: I keep more than the username and password in an item including e.g. answers to memorable questions, email ID etc… These are now multiple clicks away instead of being displayed by an item's details alongside the list (as they were in 1Password 7 Mini), allowing other fields to be copied with a single click.

For example:
- I manage dozens of VPS credentials with systematic naming conventions. In 1Password 7 Mini, I could quickly browse an alphabetical list, select an entry and copy its credentials. In Quick Access, entries are muddled up and harder to locate, less information is visible, and the same tasks require more clicks and interactions.

I'm not asking for 1Password 7 to return. I'm just asking for the useful functionality that already existed in 7 mini to be made available in Quick Access, at the very list as a simple set of preferences for Quick Access in 1Password 8.

I've raised these issues with support repeatedly and on this forum before it changed a couple of years ago, only to be told that my feedback has been added as “votes” to existing feature requests. Similar concerns have appeared in these forums for years, yet nothing has changed.

My family has remained on 1Password 7 for these reasons, and work colleagues have also expressed similar frustrations so much that none of them have migrated to v8. After years of recommending 1Password, it's disappointing that the newer version makes basic workflows less efficient.

To the 1Password team: Please bring back the features of 1P7 mini to Quick Access. This is not asking for much. It’s feedback which just restores what you had already designed in 7 Mini via a set of preferences that surely wouldn’t take that much time to implement e.g. 1,2 and 4 should could be done in a morning.

From a very long term and really frustrated user of your software.