Slow, laggy, freezing, and looks terrible

So yesterday I updated to the most recent version of Skype for Windows desktop - primarily to fix the stupid issue where you can't change or see group chat pictures in any newly created groups.
And in the new update I find the 'new and improved' version to be incredibly slow, laggy, and occasionally freezes - to say nothing of the UI looking like pure straight unadulterated trash that takes up way too much space and looks like a giant text-messaging window on a phone. Like someone ate nothing but pale blue and white food and then vomited on a screen.
(was going to imgur link the image but I guess that's "not permitted". see attached instead.)
I guess I can only ask "why." I mean, yay, group icons work again (though they never should have broken in the first place.) Bold and italic text, yay (though now with stupid and obtrusive ads.) And now it's constantly slow to load, particularly slow to switch between chats and load history, freezes or crashes, and looks like garbage.  I'm just wondering before I go back to the old version, why this would be considered 'new' and 'updated.'
Also, nice of the site to lose this post after I had to log in prior to posting it. You know, most modern and not broken websites with a message board continue on to post the message after prompting you to log in. Sites that aren't crap, that is. Just saying~
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Coming here to rant.
I'm having all the same problems you are. It's been MONTHS since the update and they still haven't fixed any of the problems you mentioned. (I just updated. I reverted back to the old version until I got tired of messages pestering me to update) The window is slow to open after being minimized. It freezes for several seconds whenever I switch between chats. It takes forever to load messages. And more.
I can understand them sticking with the ugly interface and all that. But why can't they fix the bugs?

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