(emphasis added)
That may be true of some comments here, but the reason mods have engaged you specifically is that your own critique of the folder feature has been anything but “clean [and] clear”.
Listen, I’m not fan of the new UI, and am of the opinion that the UI design started going south already in 2022, but unless you can point to one or more of the 8 issues described above, then your complaints about folders have no rational basis.
You keep bringing up the “All Items” section when people ask you why you object to the new folder UI, but the “All Items” section is a red herring. The old UI had something very similar: below the folder list on the Vault page, there was a list of all vault items that had not been assigned to a folder:
So you seem to be saying that if we took the old UI and made a single small change — show all vault items in what was the “No Folder” list at the bottom of the Vault view — then, all of a sudden, you can’t see or use the folder structure anymore?!?!?
Perhaps you have valid objections to the new folder UI (although we might never know), and perhaps you have valid objections to the “All Items” section — but complaining about the “All Items” section when you are being asked about your objections to the folder functionality is not helping, and is not getting you anywhere.