User blog comment:MisterWoodhouse/The first migrations to the Unified Community Platform/@comment-43776874-20200526214428/@comment-37336800-20200526221050

what angers me is that people keep saying "Nobody asked for this" and "this update is pointless" when in fact it's been asked for many, many times in the past, and it brings many improvements with it. Off the top of my head, here are some of the improvements I'm excited for:
 * Faster refresh of your personal CSS. No more force refreshing for five minutes, changes to your personal CSS tend to show up immediately, or else within the minute.
 * Find and Replace. Though I'm not a fan of how long the editor takes to load, it includes a very powerful find and replace feature, meaning I no longer have to turn to an external editor when mass-editing a page.
 * . Previously disabled due to performance concerns, newer mediawiki versions enabled action=info (second to last entry in the table), which is very nice for the fanon versions of wikis as it lets you view how many people are following your pages.
 * Updated extensions. mw:Extension:InputBox doesn't support setting an id until Mediawiki 1.23 or setting  (necessary for versatile templates) until Mediawiki 1.25. Legacy wikis run Mediawiki 1.19 and thus can't use either

And that's just what I can think of right now, there's more that I'm a fan of