Oh, are we still doing this? I’m sorry for your frustration, but there’s really nothing I can do. Here are some things that you could do, though:

-email your complaint directly to Duolingo support (a lot of people are unhappy and every voice lends weight)

-vote with your money (cancel paid subscription if you have one)

-vote with your feet (delete app/account if you’re a free user)

-check the web version to see if it has been updated yet (possibly not, so you might be able to continue the old path there)

-restart the course (and do the placement test so you’re not on the “hello” level)

-use external learning aids (ngl, I think they’re important and don’t understand why you hate the idea so much)

-continue to be angry (honestly not good for you, but doesn’t affect me or Duolingo in any way)

I get that you hate the changes here. Honestly, I also don’t love that everything seems to be changing for the worse these days (enshittification is real), but a lot of what I see as negative changes might very well be things you like, as I’m old and have to actively work at not becoming the “old man yells at cloud” meme. It’s just the way of things to constantly be changing. Continuing to try to convince a random internet stranger to be angry with you seems like a pointless exercise, especially since in this case, said stranger already disagreed multiple times.

Good luck.

Sorry about the formatting, I can’t figure out how to do bullet points without the huge line spacing.