Not again, WordPress?

I recently posted about how convoluted commenting was becoming on WordPress. Well, now, the effing Happiness Engineers have struck again:

Just yesterday, clicking on a comment in my notifications list would open the comment to the left of the list, allowing me to easily click on the next comment. Today? Today, the comment covers up the list, and I have to click a STUPID back button to get rid of it and see the notification list again.

And those up/down arrows? I don’t know what they’re meant to do, but all they seem to do is display a list of people who…like the post?

And speaking of likes, clicking on a ‘like’ notification [to mark it as read], causes the same stupid list to display. Then you have to click the bloody back button to get out of the list of ‘Likes’ and back to the actual list of notifications.

What in blue blazes is going on?

Instead of streamlining interactions between users, WordPress is adding more and more useless clicks to the process. Each click may not seem like much, but add them all together, and the whole process becomes incredibly unwieldy. And unpleasant. Soon we’ll be thinking twice about commenting at all.

This is such poor design that I can’t imagine why any sane programmer would do it. Clunky, awkward code is bad code.

Does anyone know what the heck is going on?

Meeks