It’s becoming clearer that there is some logic behind this (not excusing the UI and sorting changes - I hate them - but there is a path that makes some sense) - As a few people have tried to explain (often in somewhat unhelpful ways, as they come across as denying that things have happened), the old sorting systems didn’t actually change the order of items in the ‘list’ (server side), they just gave us the appearance of changing the layout (client side). The new system has apparently changed this at the underlying level and now sorting options actually sort the contents, rather than just changing what we see. So it’s not so much that they actively removed options, as it is that they failed to add new versions of these old options in (because they didn’t view them as important…). I don’t know why they felt the need to change the underlying systems - but there may be some future intended benefit whereby doing it this way allows for greeater future flexibility. The problem was that they didn’t include new versions of important older sorting methods.

Certainly seems to be the case. However, it’s worth noting that the greatest benefit is likely to come from calmly explaining how we do play the game - simply telling them they are wrong, but not explaining why, is less likely to convince them.

That may be desirable (at least for some), but it’s simply not going to happen. Partly, it has already been too long - a rollback in the first couple of hours (or maybe the first day) might be feasible - but the outrage they would face for a rollback after even just a few days would dwarf the numbers calling for it in the first place - people really hate losing progress and items they’ve paid for. And this is especially true when they can be (and are) re-coding the UI sorting features for the hotfix, so that they can return the lost features without having to p**s off a whole additional bunch of players by removing their progress (and paid items).

But beyond all the arguments, there’s just the simple fact that Funcom doesn’t roll things back. In the simplest of terms - Machete don’t text and Funcom don’t rollback.