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Unfortunately, rather than accelerating everyday edits or introducing the intelligent tools editors actually want, the update trades intuitive efficiency for an over-complicated layout and frustrating physical ergonomics. The UI relies heavily on cramped, small circular controls. Trying to make fine adjustments with a standard mouse requires sweeping gestures that stretch your wrist across the entire mouse pad, only to hit the edge, reset, and start over. It forces repetitive, unnatural hand movements that strain your wrist for very little payoff. The vertical and horizontal mouse-tracking logic feels completely unintuitive. Instead of speeding up grading, it introduces an unnecessary learning curve that fights against how editors naturally map mouse movement to visual adjustments. 

Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of this update is the stark gap between expectation and reality. Editors are looking to software companies to solve tedious, repetitive bottlenecks through smart automation. Expectations were high for robust, native AI-driven color matching, shadow matching, and highlight matching that could harmonize mismatched camera angles or shots with a single click. Instead, this beta delivers a dense, clunky manual interface that fails to leverage modern AI capabilities, leaving editors to do all the heavy lifting manually through a worse UI. Willingness to adapt to a new workflow only makes sense if the new tool actually saves time. In its current beta state, this color overhaul adds friction rather than removing it. Last but not least, I teach video production at the University of Florida and I for the life of me cannot imagine having to teach this.  Tim Sorel- tsorel@ufl.edu