Aargh, updated the app by mistake and it’s horrible! – Feedly - Smart News Reader Review

I’d been avoiding to update my Feedly app for... probably at least 2 years. Today I forgot that I didn’t want to update it and now I have a useless app. You know, one of those whose “new and improved” iteration actually means a huge loss in productivity because now I have to click and swipe and scroll at nauseam when before I just needed to scroll, click and swipe and be done. It is not just a case of not liking change. But change for the sake of change and looking jazzy and cool is horrible when it also forces the user to spend more time doing the exact same thing that the old version allowed her/him to do much faster and efficiently. Feedly, you have lost your way. You may now lose me as a user and advocate as well. Ps: I’m not even touching the “aaargh, ads in my feeds” controversy because I didn’t even get that far into the app before having a conniption about how everything takes so much longer to accomplish now. * update on 8/14/20: developer replies to this review wanting details. Doesn’t provide email address for me to provide details including screenshots. Developer claims I can revert to Classic Feedly. Hmm, there is NO option for this. Provide directions on how to do this, please. I wish I had never updated this app. You should have continued to provide the same options as the pc version. Also, now seeing how much the subscription would be. I’d be willing to pay for the app to go back to the way it was 2 years ago. But I don’t need all the bells and whistles, “teams” and “magazine cards” and whatever other gadgets. Like another reviewer stated, all I want is an RSS feed reader that lets me organize my feeds and shows me the headline view with my feeds remaining pinned to the left side of the screen (instead of disappearing until we tap to see them) without waste of space or negative space and the option to email articles to myself or others. That’s it. Also, where is the big check mark that appeared when we scrolled down, so we could mark the feed as read?! Now is incessant scrolling. More icons that I’m never going to use, but the choices that I had and wanted to keep have either disappeared or are buried under other drop down menu or within icons. What the hell? So I’m not paying $100 a year for this app, especially when news sites such as Reuters and my local newspaper’s site have turned off their RSS feeds altogether. How many more will follow suit? Is your price going to continue to go up for features that I don’t need nor want, at the same time as the digital news industry is starting to revolt against RSS feed readers? That seems ill-advised.
Review by Froogalmom on Feedly - Smart News Reader.