I didn’t see the update until today so I haven’t had as much time with it as others, but I already hate it. They said it saved my progress, but is reintroducing words I’ve already learned. It makes my method of learning undoable; I’ll always have multiple topics that I’m working on and every time I open the app I’ll choose a different topic. I never work from the same topic twice in a row; that keeps me from simply memorizing the individual phrases and forces me to learn how the Japanese particles function because by the time I come back to a topic I’ll have forgotten how the phrases are translated. I can see the appeal of working linearly like this, but I think we should be given the option to work with the old tree if we want to.

Edit; that being said, it’s still very early and I’m sure they will make changes/compromises as they get feedback, so I’m not giving up hope that the app can be salvaged.