I agree that they mangled your use case, but think this is a pretty great improvement for probably >95% of their users. Most users do have not that many repos

I agree that they mangled your use case, but think this is a pretty great improvement for probably >95% of their users. Most users do have not that many repos and work on only very few a day. The former UI had two ways to switch repos, and to be honest it happened quite often to me that I had selected a repo on the left, but not the tab, and so was looking at the wrong stuff for a few seconds. So I see your pain, but have to agree with the thinking behind this change. (Although I think the new repo selection screen is not very pretty, misses functionality [I can see all my folder opened at the same time] and wastes so much space - it should have just been like the old repo list but in a different location)