Is New PubMed a Missed Opportunity?

An interesting question posed in a poetic fashion at Laika's MedLibLog. 

my point is that the new PubMed creation

could have been so much better:

not only the functionality, the route also matters.

The redesign is a missed opportunity,

to build an entire new PubMed you see.

The interface is still quite orthodox.

I want clickable and movable boxes

with MESH in clouds thru which you can “walk”

and Clinical Queries that you can drag and drop

with a mapping tool-you can adjust

Yeah, it would've been interesting if 'they' went completely ultra-modern, but PubMed is a government website and ultra-modern web-design and government websites are two things that don't typically go together very well (for better or worse).  Plus, advanced, complex searches probably constitute a small portion of all PubMed queries, and I wouldn't be surprised if the design goal was to make the search experience as streamlined and basic as possible.  For that reason, appeasing advanced searchers was probably low on the new PubMed priority list. 

[Aside] I must say, though, that I'd like to see the clinical queries somehow integrated into the main search box, 'cause it'd be nice to be able to select a query without having to go to a separate search page to do so...[/Aside]

[Aside within Aside] Or memorize tags like this:

(Therapy/Narrow[filter])

and this:

systematic[sb]

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[Aside] Granted, the search filters through MyNCBI can help with this, but it's bummer that you're limited to five filters.  Personally, I'd have 10 or so enabled if PubMed allowed it.[/Aside]