I was very critical of V8 as well, but I recently switched to it because a client is using it and I must admit that it’s fine now (for me at least).
The worst things I’m still seeing are:
- Python scripts being initially slower (some new on-demand thing it seems)
- Materials jumping to different objects in rendered section view (fix on the way)
- SVG icon editor/importer UX glitches (ongoing fixes)
- Snapping toolbar occasionally pops up twice and needs closing
- Selections occasionally refuses to work (confirmed clipping plane bug)
- Layers panel misbehaving
- Uncertainty regarding toolbar customizations
Regarding the last point, it’s just my inexperience and the fact that I don’t like how the new customization dialogs work compared to how it used to be, and I don’t have my .rui files on Dropbox but rather iCloud Drive, but so far it does seem to work.
So, still UX issues (and I bet I forgot/got used to some I didn’t list) but nothing show-stopping anymore (knock on wood).
I’m not really using any new features (PushPull is too basic to be of any real use to me, for example) but I’m not going back if I can avoid it because I do find myself using the unified custom mesh settings all the time!