Indeed, many comments / criticisms of V3 are still in process while V2 is on life-support.. . If I were a staffer, I would re-think the decision to step away from V2 so quickly in-so-far as users are not clamo(u)ring for chess.com to hurry up and trash V2 as soon as possible. My point? Step-back and figure out what makes V2 so compelling to those users..!! There is something or some things that V2 still does better than V3, obviously. Find those things, those ideas, those concepts and incorporate them in to V3. Otherwise, this debate will only continue, even after the plug is pulled from V2.
Good post and well elucidated, I agree.
Thanks LegoPirate, that was helpful.