There certainly seem to be quite a few people posting about New Search who almost have a religious zeal in their worship of everything that Ancestry does must be right and we poor ignorant souls must learn to use it however bad it is.
I have been in computing for many years and I have always believed that the computer should do the hard work and get annoyed when told to do things in some counterintuitive way because of poor software. It is reminiscent of the days you had to enter dates as YYYYMMDD because it was the only way the software could handle them.