
It is very reasonable to assume that the frustration will most likely disappear with time as your skills of using the new features improve and you will be able to enjoy it again once you get used to it.

I would not worry about it and carry on learning despite the occasional frustration keeping in mind that is a natural process and only means you are learning and getting better.

Learning requires some struggling and it can be a slight shock when one is used to working smoothly. Now in regard to your frustration when learning new things I can only say that it is natural. New features include: Denoiser PBR Shader Shadow Catcher Filmic Color Management Faster AMD OpenCL Over 700 bugs fixed And much more For the full features list, see the new and GORGEOUS 2.79 release notes. In addition to that it is a fact, that version 2.79 is planned to be made available for download in the future when 2.80 is released like every other previous version same as these here and it is also going to remain free for downloading so there will definitely be nothing stopping anyone from using it in the future. The Blender Foundation has just released Blender 2.79, the last official version before the huge 2.80 makeover. In fact it is the current version until 2.80 is released, that has not happened yet at the time I am writing this. This question was marked as opinion based, however I believe it can have a definite answer that is not an opinion:
