That might work on the small phone screen because you can easily reach the screen edges with your thumb.
But what about larger screens on a tablet? You have to move your whole hand just to switch the views on the homescreen.

For me the new 2.0 UX is much better, because you can easily start apps from everywhere and don't have to deal with focus stealing (i.e. you can easily start multiple apps in a row).

I don't like the new cover action buttons. But it seems to be the only real solution for now. I would add a small delay to those buttons, because I tend to miss-click them even I like to open the app instead of executing a cover action.

For media player: You can now control it right on the lock-screen. Very nice.

There are some things that could be better:
* return to app, when events view opened by swipe action
* let app stay open, if device was locked from within a app
* better audio-app detection, to control volume - in Chrome, I have to actually start a video to be able to reduce/increase the volume level, which could be very annoying, if you would like to watch it silently or something.

The new lock mechanism (open top menu and click on lock icon) is something I can live with.


I really like the new UX (have it now running since a few days) - some things could be done better, but for me there is nothing to whine about ('I will not upgrade' shittalk).

It's really going in the right direction.