My Trip to the Dark Side AKA the "Modern" View

I'll play along for a little bit. Not sure how long I'll last until I go into convulsions (already feeling queasy).

Here is a "follow me" as I try to make sense of this.

1. I know what my name is. I also know what I look like so I don't need a profile picture on the upper right to remind me. Reasoning for this feature?

2. I can't see but a few of the forums on the forum dropdown. I can't arrow down or use a mouse to scroll down.

3. When I was typing queasy above I originally misspelt it. Grammarly popped up and when I closed that window my post was gone - nowhere to be seen. I figured I would have to start again and so clicked the what do you want to discuss (title) box and the window with my post came back. It's good it came back but it's bad it totally disappeared.

4. I go to the first thread. There was a post 18 minutes ago. But even though I'm scrolling back and forth I can't find the most recent post. What am I missing? Do I have to click on every reply in the thread?

Added to OP:

5. Looking the most recent threads, we have this order from the top: 5 minutes ago, 1 minute ago. Where I was raised 1 minute ago would be more recent than 5 minutes ago. But maybe I've been wrong all this time.

Update on #5. It is sorted correctly currently. I didn't think to get a screenshot at the time.

6. The automatic subscription for thread openers ignores the settings in our control panel.

More to come, I'm sure.

Mark