Feedback - Komplete Kontrol 3.0

I appreciate that a lot of work must have gone in to developing the new version, and as an old guy I'm also cognizant of the trope that "anything new goes against nature" but as both a user and as someone who used to be involved quite a lot in UI design over several decades, quite frankly the new version leaves a lot to be desired. I see that development has taken NI a year, but it still feels very much like development was rushed. I have a few points to illustrate this (I have more. So many more.)

When you select a plugin from the browser, how does the user return to the browser pane if they change their mind? In version 2 and on the Komplete Kontrol keyboard, this was self evident; in version 3, the user is expected to know that they must click on the little "stacked books" icon. Would it have hurt to include a little "close window" button to make it obvious? And if I want to remove a plugin from interface (such as the CMI V synth in the screenshot below) rather than just return to the browser, how do I do this? There is no "X" to delete it and a day after installing the new version I have yet to discover if the program even allows me to do this. It should, but does it?

And let's just pick apart that little down arrow underneath "CMI V" in the screen shot below. What does it mean? To use the correct jargon, what are its affordances? What is the user expected to use it for? It should be as intuitively easy as possible to figure out each item of the interface, but this is one of many design choices that seems deliberately obtuse. Clicking on it displays three options: "Internal" "VST3" and "VST" so it's probably talking about plug-ins, right? Does that mean I can add an audio effect to my selection? Cool, let's do that. So if I click on "Internal" what do I get? Two further options: "Audio" and "Sampler". But clicking on "Audio" switches the browser to the "Loop" window, and "Sampler" switches it to the "One-shot" window. So why the different names for the options? Why are the options displayed when the user clicks on "Internal" not therefore labelled "Loop" and "One-shot"? Honestly, this is rookie-level stuff, folks.

Also: The CMI V icon looks lost in that massive grey square. Why is the button so big and the image so small? Look at all that empty display area going to waste. That would be shocking even if you weren't restricting the window size, but given that you are, it's an unforgivable design choice.

The new default sorting of instruments in the browser view is now entirely dependent on the plugin name assigned by the supplier. Before, All my Arturia V collection synths were grouped together; now, because their instruments are named by the synth name, they appear scattered through the default listing—even though "brand" is highlighted in the screen shot here, the list is not being sorted in the same way as it was in version 2. If you're not sorting something by one of the sort options displayed, DON'T HIGHLIGHT IT. Again, this is rookie-level stuff.

Unlike Arturia's products which appear in the screenshot above, all of Spitfire Audio's instruments appear together because their instrument names begin with "Spitfire Audio". So that's completely messed up the paradigm of the sort, for a start. It's clearly been identified as some sort of a problem, because the beginning of each name is truncated to "Spitfire Audi..." and the end of the name is appended to identify the plug-in. Nicely spotted, but it's not consistent, it's an ugly way of doing things, and it doesn't fix the underlying problem, which is that the way elements are sorted is broken and needs fixing. It's a kludge. And if there are kludges like this in the stuff I can see, what is the underlying code going to be like? This does not instil confidence, folks.

As a more subjective observation, the implementation seems to run noticeably slower on my Komplete Kontrol S88 Mk2. Nice though the extra power of the Mk 3 is for users, it would be nice to think that the code has been optimised for older kit as well, not just the new shiny stuff. Given my comments above, you'll understand that I'm not exactly confident that will be the case.