[notyourwork]

I agree and I regularly miss the blade dashboard from long ago. Every update keeps making it more and more difficult and intuitive.

When you don't have a mouse or a touch screen, putting things in non-linear places makes extremely difficult to navigate to. I find myself regularly going down and over and up and around. Almost circling things to select them.

Old gaming menus were horizontal or vertical but not both at the same time.

[khedoros1]

I've got an old 360 with the original blade interface; unfortunately, it's pretty unstable (high chance of red-ringing while playing anything). I pulled it out of storage a couple years ago to get the serial number when MS was offering a free memory card for older machines.

The interface felt so nice to go back to! Things were logically organized! Ads only showed up in the store tab (i.e. when you're looking for things to buy anyhow)! Going back to the current interface on my replacement 360 is what pushed me to start playing with blocking the ads using router rules.