I’m not the biggest fan of this update on the virtue that everything is now overcomplicated. After RPing on LOTC for an extended period of time, the use of stuff like /w and /s are muscle-memory, and now I have to do SHIFT-3 just to change my chat channel. That, mixed with the abhorrently awful chatstyle system (Why change that in the first place?) makes this update just a clunky mess.
I’m not sure ANYONE asked for improvements to the chat system. It was very clearly in an alright spot before the update, so why change it?