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I'm kinda getting to that point as well. The new UI is a big one for me. The issue is that it hides a lot of the buttons until you hover over a certain area. If I want to minimize the terminal, I have to move my pointer to the terminal's toolbar and only then will the minimize button appear. That means that I can't target the minimize button. It becomes a two-step process with a slight delay waiting for the minimize button to fade in so I can move the cursor to it.

Likewise, the "x" button to close tabs is hidden until you hover over the tab. This means that I'll go to try and select a tab and when I move my cursor over the tab and click, an "x" has just appeared under my cursor and I close the tab instead! Whoops, I guess I should have known better than to aim my cursor at the right portion of the tab.

It feels like they're trying to make it seem more like VSCode, but it's just poor UX from where I'm sitting. Plus, as VSCode gets better, I'm finding less reason to keep paying for the JetBrains suite.

Yeah, I ended up switching to neovim because I was getting sick of my Jetbrains IDE. It seemed like it has been getting slower, and the New UI was pretty meh. And I was already using the vim mode plugin.

Switching to neovim was definitely painful at first because I had to figure out all of the plugins to get IDE-level functionality. But after a couple weeks, it was in a good place.

Now, a year later, I’m so much more productive than I was, the UI is nearly instant, and everything is where I want it. And the features don’t generally change much unless I want them to. Only feature that I miss is the git conflict resolution. The jetbrains three-pane UI around merge conflicts is incredible and I still haven’t found a good replacement.

If the new UI is such an issue, why haven’t you switched back? The majority of developers I know haven’t even bothered with the new UI.

I switched back too, as the new UI is just... ugly. It looks and feels more like something for children than a serious IDE. I've even gone back and tried it in earnest, but in all honesty I just don't understand why JetBrains have spent so much time and effort on something that's simply worse than the original UI.

I'm dreading the day where the old UI is replaced with the new UI... I might seriously have to look at going back to Visual Studio, and I'd really rather not - I just want to keep the existing, perfectly fine UI!

Switching back is a deferral until it eventually gets shoved down on our throats

I never tried the new UI. Happy with the original!

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