> which I've grown accustom to and don't mind

This happens in every redesign. People push back and claw their way to use the old design, eventually it becomes completely inaccessible. Three years later and the same people will complain about the next redesign again.

That sort of paints the people in the light that they don’t have a legitimate complain though.

Like yeah, enshitification gets normalized and you learn to live with it. But that doesn’t mean it’s fine either.

Slacks done redesigns before that were well received because it didn’t affect its functionality in the workplace. This does.

I’ve had zero problems with any of Slack’s previous design changes; I’ve welcomed many of them. But rolling all Slack orgs into one is a sudden and dramatic problem.

Sure but are you multi tasking for work on your iPad with two apps up at once? The context matters because in a single active app scenario, you don’t have the same interaction considerations.

You can reverse the flag if you want to force the new UI on your local. I've updated the About section of the addon which shows you how to do that.