I made a feedback report on the beta, but I am not sure I communicated my thoughts clearly, so I’ll post here too.
First of all, great work on the new version, the app is better than ever, but I have one issue with the new UI in that it slows down tool switching, at least for me.
Namely, now that the pencil tool is no longer a tool, but an option for the paint tool, instead of simply selecting either tool to switch between different brushes and tools, now I need to open the brush panel, select the brush, open the menu, toggle the hard edges mode, then do the same again to switch to the other. It adds unnecessary steps, yet doesn’t really do anything of benefit as far as I can tell. It’s one less icon in the toolbar, but it means people need to go through extra menus to use it and then go through those menus again not to use it, and the problem is increased by an order of magnitude if they use the mode with a different brush and switch back and forth.
Similarly, the auto clean/load toggles that have been removed from the quick access menu (the “...” button) when using the wet brush tool mean that people now need to go through multiple menus to get to them.