Anyone else HATE the new "guide" system?

To the OP.

How is it hard to access your friends list? If your on the dashboard just go to friends, if your in a game just say "Xbox snap friends" it's not difficult.

I hate the whole UI itself.

The UI is getting better but I agree it's not the best and mine loads slow quite often telling me my friends cannot be shown, party chat errors, etc. Not horrible but not great, still prefer the Xbox 360 dashboard.

I have no problem with the design of the UI - I rather like it, but, I've said this before, it is extremely slow.

People appear to have different experience of the UI in terms of performance, hence I have to conclude it's related to network issues (maybe to do with proximity/MS configuration regarding nearest MS' UI servicing servers).

i'm actually wondering if we are talking about the X1 or not, what is so hard about accessing the friends list? it's right there, plain as day and larger than life, it is a little different than the 360, but no harder or easier, just different.

and the dashboard will change, some people view MS as messing up a ton of things, but they understand that they have to keep changing and innovating, otherwise the console really will dead and then we'll really see what "anti-consumer" means.