I want to get back previous version of Launcher with neat and simple planar list of games with couple categories, as it was.
I think the only way is to use custom launchers, you can try GitHub - scratchminer/Index-OS: A custom launcher for the Panic Playdate, but I don’t think it’s been confirmed to work on 3.0 yet.
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It doesn't because they added new system-level functions in 3.0.0 to support game groups.
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If you select the “All Games” folder it works the way it used to.
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Unfortunately, this is just kind of one more level of complexity — one more “choice and press” here, another one more there…
Also, look, I see here a major ethical problem.
We see an overall increase in the number of games, we want more games on consoles and, consequently, their management, navigation — folders, more categories, sorting. But no one (except researchers who have been writing huge papers of researches on the subject for 40-50 years and 10 years specifically on video games) thinks that in order for games to be played, there shouldn't be too many of them. And there shouldn't be "free" installation — it should at least have a price in the form of additional management of space and waiting time, at a minimum. This has been scientifically proven many times. Therefore, I consider this new menu to be a harmful complication. Harmful because it encourages a large number of games, and because the complication is pointless, and that's exactly what it is — a complication. The previous version was perfect — two kinds for a simple list with categories, where the price for a large amount of installed games was the length of the list and the duration of scrolling, even though the scroll wheel worked perfectly quickly and accurately.
I plan to get the custom launcher support into 3.1. You’ll be free to make your own launcher with as much mental cost as you want. 
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Also, having got new Launcher with hierarchical menu, we lost awesome beloved feature when you wake up your Playdate after night and new background-downloaded game appeared as a gift with neat animation. That isn’t happening if Launcher is in “in the root of hierarchy“ state.
@dave, New Launcher is good definitely, but I really need old mode in it. And of course new API for custom launchers could be awesome too.
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