Any other experts on here have an opinion one way or the other on the new system? I am not feeling the love for it and finding it a pain to look for questions to answer.

A new interface for what exactly????

Proberbly done to get around the hack of viewing the google cached versions of the answers so you did not need to subscribe. Although seems to have had a negative on googles front as none of the answers are indexed now, so do a search and you only see questions.

I used the new interface the other day via a Google search, and viewed the answers at the bottom of the page with no problem (not cached, but following a link from Google).