1password8 Quick Menu is Awful to Use - HELP

Listen. The 1P Mini is gone and I certainly wouldn't advise you to hold your breath waiting on it to be restored. For better or worse, the company seems to be focused more on the enterprise rather than individual/family market. And in that market, the user base tends to be more power user "keyboard jockeys" who find the Quick Access user interface to be useful. Which is why the 1P menu bar item launches Quick Access by default. While I am a tech savvy, power user I am most definitely not a "keyboard jockey" and prefer an actual UI,  which is why I changed this setting to launch the main 1P window instead. On my machine, I find that it launches just as quickly as the old 1P Mini and obviously provides the same functionality and then some. It's the best you can do.