Great, I’m glad you liked the previous update; I’m happy with it too.
Related to the missing post excerpt, good catch. That was intentional on our instance (I paired it with another component that filled that space) but I finally changed my approach.
The excerpts are enabled again by default; there is also a new compact_last_reply setting that reduces the card heights by a little. The title floating to the middle was a separate grid bug, also fixed.
Thanks for sharing your experience.