Use busy.org then. It's fairly simple busy has better UI, in my pinion, adding that it has support for notifications and wallet on the same website. There is no website that can limit what we do on steem. Steemit is just one "gateway" into steem and we don't have to use it, it surely can't limit your experience nor ability what you can do on steem blockchain. There is a reason why it is decentralized.

Just because steemit was the first to enable simple solution to interact with steem does not mean it is the best. We as users can easily switch to another websites that allows us to use steem without any hustle like busy for instance. I am not affiliate with Hive account@busy.org just think it is a great platform, maybe others can try it.

Yeah it is irritating that it opens in new tab every time I want to use my wallet, checked it now…. Although there are other websites with ability to interact with steem as well, busy and steemit are not the only ones out there.