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IMO, The new metadata tab is very useable. In many ways for epub2 it is similar to what was there previously. Both the old version and new version are resizeable tables. The fields themselves as the same size as on the older table aporoach (same font size used, etc).
In the old version, all properties of a metadata tab were fixed into columns but that limited things in many ways. In the new version, you add the tag and then add any properties you want as its children.
To help speed things up there are simple ways to add an Author, title and language in one step (just as before) since those are common operations. You can also add empty tags and properties and type in anything you like. Again, just as before.
So what exactly do you find unusable about it? Is it that you are unfamiliar with the tag and property names? Most of these are identical to the previous way.
Either way, the current metadata tool is here to stay. When, epub 3.1s start being asked for by users, a third metadata entry mode can then easily be supported.
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