System is becoming unusable with new clunky aides

Hi @SarahO, thanks for taking the time to leave this feedback, and apologies for the frustration! I understand how this can make editing more difficult in the scenario you’ve shown above, and this will be very helpful for our product team when prioritizing improvements to Lucidchart. In the meantime, I did want to share one workaround with you, which is to hide the note icons in your document for easier editing. You can do this by navigating to the View menu and deselecting “Show notes.”

I hope this is helpful!

Re Notes: Suggesting we remove notes from view is unlikely to benefit us if we have notes and now don’t know we have notes? Just a reminder this is a reference back to a previous feedback item i made which was to not have them take up so much real estate. The new circle around the note back then and the positioning of it is the problem there.

This post was about the other changes - now adding to the challenges / frustrations.  So that is around the fact that your line connectors now make it frustratingly fussing to change the word yes  when the oblong thing plonks itself in the middle of the word. The oblong blobs seems to offer not no identifiable benefit when put up against the loss of efficiency that it has introduced. What is the reasoning behind all these clumsy obnoxious like adds and can we get rid of those too?
Then the arrow pops up large, resizes randomly if don't have it perfectly positioned covers up and blocks the word on the connector line too. So when walking through a flow from box to box with someone now we can’t see the words on the lines.   personally, and I know my colleagues have mentioned it too, it is not impressing anyone.

Why is the system fussing with silly things like this that are hindering not enhancing vs improving things like find replace and not replacing something in every tab, and just where one is or gosh, i could probably list 10 things if you got me going that are much more value add than now having things hide and cover up what we are working on

@SarahO Thanks for this comment - we take your feedback on this very seriously, and I apologize for the frustration this is causing. Your thoughts are really insightful, and I’ve shared this with our development team so they can utilize it when making improvements to this experience.