MicrosoftI took a few minutes yesterday to consider the wording of the planned change and the wording implies something different to that which I believe has been developed. Feature ID 117585 states:
“As you add and adjust filters to narrow or expand what appears in the current list view, you'll now see which filters have been applied. And you can remove them without going back into the column filter pane. You do this now in the top-left portion of the list.”
Which means to me that if you add or adjust the filtering of a View, then those changes can be removed without returning to a column filter pane. It makes no mentioned at all of a ‘Clear Filters’ options where you end up with the equivalent of an open ‘All Items’ view. And what’s worse I think, is that this was added to the roadmap on 23rd March 2023! So how much user engagement, discussions and time was set aside to consider the implications of this? Who gave the go-ahead with only 5 weeks between being added to the roadmap and the delivery of this additional functionality! Is this is norm for this kind of change? If I wanted to be snarky about this I would say it’s Project Planning on the ‘back of a **bleep**-packet (cigarette packet)’.
So the above being said (and I don’t want this in any way to devolve in a discussion of semantics), please can people make suggestions about what can now be done to address this? Can it be rolled back? Most importantly can it be 'improved' to make it an optional change which is switched on/off for each list? Can we make a suggestion to remove the wretched things via the User Voice and mob it to death via that? If a change can supposedly be added and happen in 5 weeks, then it ought to be removed in an equivalent time – correct?
As stated in jnlce’s second comment, this ‘…breaks a product and there is no (obvious) return path, it’s a bad decision.’
