Actions in Photoshop 12, why are they so stupid?

So, I updated from 8.0 to 12. (I know, quite a jump at once, and the only reason I did is that I have a Mark III and 8.0 doesn't read the RAW from it.) I had the actions set up in 8.0 so that I could run it as "effects" and just hit the "apply" button, then it showed all the layers, and you could turn them off or change opacity quite easily. I followed instructions for action installation (didn't have any problem with that), but I don't like the popup box that makes so sense, and I can't tell what action I'm applying and can't figure out how to change the opacity or turn off layers the way it is. Is it really that ridiculous, or is there a better way to install them so I can use them like I use to in 8.0? Any help would be appreciated!

Does the place you got them from have any instructions on use of the actions?
Can you give us a link to where you got the actions?
If you still have the actions from pse 8, you load them into pse 11 to see any differences between versions.
And some actions can get very complex and even call other actions, but you can toggle the action steps to see what all the action(s) do.
This is the Action Set Special Effects, which you should have loaded by default.
You can click on the arrow beside the action set name to see the actions inside the set, then click on the arrow beside the action name to see the steps
and click on the arrows beside each step like Canvas Size to see what it does.
Or in the example below, Alt click on the arrow beside the action Faded Ink to expand all the steps at the same time.
All actions are in Action Sets, meaning the set is more or less a wrapper for the actual actions that do the work
and action sets can contain one action or many different actions.

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