I set up a new Discourse forum a few days ago and I’ve got a few people aching for the more “traditional” view. This tells me two things: 1) the button for the category view isn’t intuitive enough (perhaps some glyph implying a hierarchy would be useful?) and 2) some users would prefer to be able to make this their default view.
Personally, I hate it. It makes me do a lot more work to find updates to topics. However, some people find it “cluttered” and “jumbled” and really dislike it.
How far out is this? (“When it’s done” is an acceptable answer.)