I share your view that it’s bad although I kinda got used to it and hate it a bit less.

The problem is that Strava seems to be focusing on pointless tinkering with things that work great and people are used to while not spending time on real issues with the software. As you mentioned “athlete intelligence”, can we please have an option to remove it? It just takes screen real estate and is annoying.

A lot of bugs in this new layout 

Yeh lets be real...what does the AI actually do? Its basically a glorified spreadsheet auto fill...grabs ride name, grabs power data, compares to previous rides, if more, send congrats. Im guessing Strava has some feedback that people want a workout hype wingman buddy, even if that feedback is fake, generic and meaningless. 

The current layout is really ugly, especially on the personal activity page

I hate it so much omg.  Pictures are borderline unusable.  I'm mad every day I use this app now.

Adding media and how it looks and what you have to click to enter them… just pointless complicated