Thanks for the screen grabs. Wow, that second half's new. I guess I'll see it eventually; they seem to roll changes out in waves/stages.
I suppose I've gotten "used to" the tightly controlled singular path (as much as I can), but I still miss the old system in which one could more easily skip around, there was a separate tab for stories (which you could read any time you liked!), and so on.
And, maybe just my imagination (or coincidental), but tree updates seemed less disruptive, too.