core web experience (a.k.a. stripped down browser) is not what i'm looking for.
you don't have a very large community. the core of your community commented on your decision. you didn't listen to them - you lost your followers.
for almost 10 years, opera has been my most reliable buddy in the world of the internet, and if certain features are not implemented in the new version, sadly, i will be looking for a new one.
one rendering engine to rule them all?
opera is no longer opera.
i'm sticking with opera for now...
if all of opera's futures come back, i will also come back.
as a user since 3.0, i found that opera development did not pay enough attention to the user forums. changes were usually "that's the way it is now" and some new "enhancements" were left to self-discovery. for five years, i have been asking for improvements to speed dial. opera 15 finally made some changes, but they aren't the changes that opera users were looking for. if bookmarks are gone, so am i.
it's very hard to say goodbye.
this was a betrayal to your loyal users. whoever thought of this abomination doesn't have the right to call it opera, after all one of the usual complaints throughout the years is that the name was uncool, so this is the perfect chance to pick a hipster name and keep the legacy of your own browser intact.
but otherwise, congratulations, you managed to package a bloated piece of software stripped of the features that made opera the best browser for years in twice the size of the full-featured version.
it looks like the lady singing the last moments of the company is going to be fat after all.