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General Channel + Combined Chats & Channels
As many of you have found, when the change was made to allow renaming of General Channel, we lost the ability to create a "General" channel from scratch. (I know the work-around of using templates, b...
My understanding is that this isn't a bug. It's an "intended" feature. As for sorting in the new Teams experience, we also have a number of channels with the same name in different teams. I've grouped them together and changed the display icon of the team to reflect that team. Not the best workaround, but sufficient for my needs.
Honestly, for the vast majority of the work I do in Teams, I'm not looking through the numerous chats and channels (even when grouped) to find what I'm looking for. I use CTRL+G, which takes you directly to the search bar in Go To mode, and then search for what channel or chat I'm attempting to find. This is where the Team icon comes in real handy.