R67.7 Repeated 2nd-level sub-categories in custom reports

Question

I would appreciate an explanation why 2nd-level sub-categories when customizing reports are repeated and nested since QWin R67.7? What is the benefit for such behavior?

The image below describes it best where you see three in R66.28 vs five in R67.7. You need to have a 2nd-level sub-category to see this. e.g.

Auto & Transport

> Auto Payment

> > Interest

> > Principal

Boatnmaniac · Answer

The Early Access Preference setting option is no longer available in R67.7.  Now we can't even provide proactive feedback on pending new features, anymore.

Jim_Harman · Answer

I agree this is a step back in UI design. Note that the "improved" Reports and Graphs Center has been available for over two years, enabled by the Early Access Preferences setting.

There have been several discussions identifying issues with the new design, but most of them were never addressed; users were just advised to switch back to the old version.

I wonder why Quicken goes to the trouble of rolling out "early access" features if they don't listen to the feedback they receive.

BK · Answer

Agree that this is a usability/UI issue. I am still wondering if this change was by design or they accidentally caused various UI issues when they opened the hood.

It would be great if the moderators could follow up with the teams and let us know if this specific 2nd-level subcategory repeat issue is an intentional UI change that we have to get used to, or an unintentional one that we can look forward to a cleanup in the future.

Besides that, look at the image of the R66.28 again with such a simple and clean UI - all it shows is Interest. And now very cluttered in R67.7 where it shows Auto & Transport: Auto Payment: Interest. Wish they would consider reverting back to the simple UI of the prior release.

I have no plans to update my primary setup to this release.