Interface changes?

Okay, what is with all the interface changes? Changes to focus behaviour, window layout, menu names ("Search" instead of "Find", pie-menu changes, etc. etc.

Why were any of these done, what motivated them? Because the resounding response seems to be "they are making our experience a pain".
The focus BUG especially has yet to be addressed and is making 1.11 a bad release, are these changes going to be rolled back? Because there are all manor of minor changes to the interface in 1.11 which have led to big problems in useability, especially when the changes seem to be for change's sake and not the user's

No-one has a clue what typing things is going to do, having the all tab in "search" come first is kind of annoying too as now I get far too many results for searches for it to be useful

Very much understood!

There isn't a single "focus bug" but I've been helping to identify a number of them. Like, the current one where you can't use keyboard shortcuts when Send Postcard and Snapshot Preview are BOTH open. I've explained some of the reasoning in previous forum posts, and I know some things take awhile to get used to, while others need definite improvements.

Because I get so many questions (100s) on this topic and it's not possible for me to reply to each individually, I'm inclined to write more about the common thoughtlines concerning usability on the unified Linden blog:

http://blog.secondlife.com/

so hopefully after I dig through more stuff (pockets overflowing with Resident Experience issues here!), I will have time.