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Wait, really? It's not even that big a change! That's a hell of a thing to cut and run for
It's quite a massive change and significantly impacts usability in a lot of cases and it also makes Discord no different from any other app.
If they had just kept the server list in the direct messages view this would've been way less worse.
Outside of a minor appearance change, they moved direct messages out of the server list and into their own space (never understood why they did it that way before), and added a way to quickly reply to a message at the expense of having to tap the channel name to see the member list instead of swiping... I'm missing how this is a massive change here and how it significantly impacts usability...
They hid a bunch of things behind menus, multiple button taps and separated two parts of Discord while they shouldn't be. Even ignoring all those useless changes, if they had just kept the server bar on the messages tab it would've been fine.