Unfortunately, I’m not a fan of the changes. On the positive side, moving the projects field up is good. Everything else, not so much.
The display of the task used to be much more compact, and compactness is really important in the list view. Assignee and Due Date used to be on the one line, and now they needlessly waste vertical space. The field labels also waste horizontal space. This is particularly bad for the description field. The description field used to span close to the full width of the task pane, and now it’s squashed up on the right. We often write large amounts in the description field, and this just makes that look really bad.
I appreciate the effort being put in to improve things, and I guess I’ll live with these changes (or use Stylus to fix them). One request, though, that I think would make things better for everyone is to have the description field span the full width of the task pane. Thanks.