New Content Browser has horrible UX, is buggy and requires more clicks to do things

Why break something that works? And why introduce around 13 issues from nowhere? Its so much harder to build now and given the previous track record of the content browser, those issues will now not be fixed, so essentially last update massively downgraded the content browser for no reason or benefit to creators.

Please stop doing this, we don’t care about the chapter/season UI to match, we care about making levels and now its way harder to do so. Oh and this is not a muscle memory thing cause I went with an open mind and got frustrated in the first minute. Reasons:

1. Cannot open galleries at times
   

2. Hard to see what you have selected
   

3. Search gone when pressing Tab, requires more clicks to search now than before
   

4. On Create|Home, can only scroll when hovering on titles:
   

5. Search doesn’t “show all” by default, and it shows nothing or a filtered category when you search (confusing cause what you search may not be in the results) and you have to click it to see the results (extra step)
   

Generally, search is the thing that was heavily impacted, before it was “type” then find, now you have to navigate 2-3 pages (or press keys) to even find the search, then press “show all”

6. Icons are much harder to see cause they are smaller
   

7. “Back” is harder to see now and to press because the action and all the buttons are on the top left
   

8. Island settings ordering is not based on frequency of change. You press player for example, first thing you need is health, like the old menu, but no, now you get to hide your back bling as the most important option.
   

9. No X to remove search term, instead its out of view now
   
   

10. (MAJOR) When searching something then you close the content browser, all your search and opened folders go away, you now have to find everything again
    

11. (MAJOR) Also if you close and re-open content browser, you can’t open galleries anymore, as seen on video above

12. Tab key doesn’t close content browser anymore

13. (MAJOR) Galleries (most used tab in building) is not the default tab anymore, you now have to pick what you want first (category) and that action alone is around x3000 extra clicks per area created with level design in live edit/creative, just from this new issue alone.

14. (MAJOR) Also you can’t see full galleries now, most of them have icons that are not visible and make the use of content browser impossible:
    

Please test UX and bugs next time, because now we have to wait for all of these to be fixed so that we can be as efficient as before. Nobody asked for this UI overhaul, and next time you do one, try to improve on the existing infrastructure instead. I am so annoyed by this because this majorly disrupts all my work and projects, since this is the tool I use to design maps. Absolutely unacceptable for whoever approved this to ship too.

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