Bring back the old search functionality, please! (Even tough I know you won't)

MajorHavoc and viswiz have it just right: The functionality was (near) perfect in 1P7 and terrible in 1P8. Like many things in 1P8, the rationale for changing behavior that worked properly before is entirely inscrutable. IMO, the most likely reason for the innumerable backwards changes was a decision to rebuild the UI from the ground up on a web-oriented UI framework (Electron) and dumb-down the interface in the name of "simplicity" - instead, what we have now is unusable for any user, not just sophisticated, experienced users. For my 50 person company, I'm the only one on 1P8 because of the backwards changes that were made. I'm suffering daily so my employees don't have to. When (actually, if) I deem it ready, we'll upgrade, and not before.

Sadly, I'm not sure the right people listen the feedback we give here,and are in their own little silo thinking that the new UI/UX is great, which it is most certainly not. I'm increasingly tired of waiting for the return of all the features that we had in 1P7. As the decision maker for these sort of solutions for my company, I'm reluctantly evaluating alternatives.

If you want to keep users like me and the rest of my company, PLEASE, AgileBits, stop treating your users like they don't matter and aren't smart enough to understand the difficulties with software development. Instead, provide a real road-map of goals and (returning) features, even if you can't provide exact dates. Thus far, the release notes imply that effort is only going to cosmetic improvements. Furthermore, hiding behind "vote tallies" and words intended to placate users is infuriating. We are vocal advocates for a good product, which 1P7 was, and will be equally vocal in our opinions to AVOID 1P8 entirely.