Storage management is awful, and creates unnecessary problems.

I know others have brought this up and share some of these issues, but here's my +1 anyway.

I've tried to acclimate to the redesign of Games & Apps, and associated features, but I can't. I don't understand the logic behind taking something that worked perfectly fine, and adding several additional broken and limiting steps.

Firstly, managing leftover add-ons requires you to go find the base game in the store, library, or game disc just so you can click "manage game" to then go into another menu and uncheck a box to uninstall.

..... why?

When downloading a game with DLC, the queue won't install DLC, until the base game installs. This may not be an issue for some, but if you're like me and you set a bunch of things to install while you're not using your console, issues can arise.

For example, I have 2 external drives and sometimes need to split the game and dlc between them. There's no option to tell the Xbox to just install wherever theres space without having to confirm for EVERY piece of DLC, and you can't individually select where you want to install each DLC beforehand. So now, since I can't manually start the dlc until the base game installs, I come back to a bunch of stopped dlc until I confirm its ok to install on another drive. Never had this problem before.

If you find an addon in the store, you can install it without the base game, but there's no "leftover content" option anymore(if it's still there I cant find it), so if you forget about it... we're back to the missing space problem that was corrected years ago.

The menu that opens when you click "free up space" does not let you see or uninstall add-ons, or switch to external drives, creating a tedious amount of backtracking and menu hopping, to do something that was extremely easy before.

It may not bother everyone, but even browsing everything available to install taken from the front menu bar and split into a bunch of sub-menus? Again, something that was fast and mostly efficient, now requires jumping back and forth between a bunch of screens?

The whole thing just feels counterintuitive to creating an easy experience for the average Xbox user. I'm sure most Insiders and gamers can figure out workarounds, but this redesign doesn't seem new user friendly.

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