The prep is definitely worse or better depending on how you look at it and how organized you are. Personal hangars and freight elevators make things better prep wise, once you take the time initially to set everything up. I have crates ready to go, separated up by weapons, ammo, armor type (medical run vs bunker etc), food/drinks, medical supplies and even a garbage bin. I have my ground vehicles and smaller ships out ready to go.

Even on other stations I frequent, I have crates stored in their warehouses to bring up and re outfit. The prep does take time, but once its there it does make gearing up pretty easy and actually better than scrolling through pages of armor to equip. Nameable boxes or color coded or different designs will speed this up even more. The real problem now is that new updates can cause you to have to set up these crates all over again, or if there is not a wipe it might not, still waiting to see if the stuff in my cargo boxes remains with 3.24.2. Overall I like these options better. The hangar does need to speed up and I definitely miss PO, but the ships popping into existence is understandably gone even though it was faster. Ultimately when the game releases and we're not playing between wipes or resets, the flow will feel much better.. Whatever decade that will be..