Catalyst: why not?

roustem Well, it is a pretty big set of changes that you've announced- big, fundamental ones to aspects of the product that are absolutely core to how people use it (subscription pricing and storing secrets on a remote server), and then simultaneously a major UI overhaul in a way that involves grabbing the third rail of modern software development (Electron) for the world's pickiest and most opinionated group of users (Mac users, myself included). And all in the context of an app that people have... very strong feelings about, probably because a) it stores incredibly important and sensitive data, and b) we interact with it dozens of times during the course of a day for a variety of different workflows. Oh, yeah, and doing it during a pandemic, heat wave, and really bad fire season, so people are maybe not in the best possible head-space to be dealing with change in a rational manner. Oh, and doing it all over the Internet, a communications medium that makes nuance and subtlety in communication basically impossible. So, yeah... that's what I would call "playing on the highest difficulty setting" 🤣

But hey, at least this way you're getting a lot of extra eyeballs on that new version! So that's something... seriously, though, better to have gotten this out early. The story now can be one of "hey, look at how much memory usage has improved since the first early access release" and "we were able to make the keyboard shortcuts work" instead of having had this... experience... take place closer to the actual release. Some of the issues people have been bringing up are intentional design decisions that you guys clearly aren't going to move on, and I will admit to being disappointed about some of that, but given the way you and your team have been engaging with the forums, you're showing that many of the UI/UX details will get ironed out. Seeing that you care about those kinds of details and design issues gives me more confidence in other parts of the product, like the cloud storage and syncing for secrets. Of course, the inverse of that statement is true, and I wonder how much of people's complaining about the Electron UI is due to that anxiety?