Cursor was pretty amazing until it started going to shit. High prices, UI changes, moving MCP settings, and moving other things around. Most importantly was th

Cursor was pretty amazing until it started going to shit. High prices, UI changes, moving MCP settings, and moving other things around. Most importantly was the Index change. It was a very unique thing to Cursor that you could use .cursorignore to control what it sees and then index the directory. Then the built in Cursor AI harness could find code and files like magic. They have since obscured the Index feature out of sight recently and I’m not sure how it even works anymore. This granular control not only helped with privacy, but it also helped make everything more efficient because the AI didn’t waste time and tokens looking at files that aren’t relevant. So, now, like everyone is talking about, we have really inefficient ways of how the AI is reading files because there is no first-class approaches. Also, agree with consensus that Astra is weird.