User blog comment:Mira Laime/Introducing long-awaited Discussions updates/@comment-26823411-20190402170415/@comment-26823411-20190402184509

Thanks for the explanation! However, given that the Category now defaults to General, instead of having to be chosen from the available options like before, I'm not sure how this second step is meant to help users better consider which category (or article) applies to their post as they can click right past it.

I guess it's an interesting experiment in UI design - hopefully you can track the increase or decrease of Moderator actions to adjust the category to see whether or not it is actually improving Category selection by users. For Moderators though, it's just added extra steps to complete these extremely common and repetitive tasks so, at least for me, /f has some serious drawbacks.