What keeps you using 3.95?

[Kyzentun]

Everything related to notefield position: I don't even understand what your problem is. Notefield position changing is the easiest thing to adapt to.
After my hands actually warmed up enough for me to do 13s, my scores were within 1% of normal. From later, with the notefield moving around: http://i.imgur.com/ZbFlzjL.jpg

Appdata:
Content is placed in appdata so that when you change versions (from any SM5 release to any other SM5 release), you don't have to go moving songs and themes and prefs around. Instead, they load from appdata, and everything is in there.
Windows is a piece of shit, so the folder is hard to find. OS X also makes it a stupid pain in the ass. On Linux, I can just open stuff in ~/.stepmania-5.0 the same as opening a file in any other folder, it's no less cumbersome.
This really isn't something the devs can do anything about, because it achieves the goal of removing the obstacle of moving songs to a new location every release.
Additionally, I've been going through and fixing common reasons for editing preferences by hand so that commonly used ones don't require editing the config file.

Too many things in options:
There are many choices in the options menu because different people want different configurations. Your entire post is about little configuration changes specific to you. Providing a system for configuring things in detail means options for doing that configuration are going to be visible.

Name changes:
They probably had stupid or misleading names in 3.9.

Reload songs:
If you're reloading songs that often, you're probably doing something stupid wrong, or not understanding how reloading works. Reloading songs is almost certainly not substantially faster than closing stepmania and opening it again. And if you have fast load off, you've really made a poor choice, because that makes a huge difference in startup time.

Screenshots:
This is actually legit. The date alone is useless for knowing what a screenshot is for. Right now, the Print Screen screenshot key doesn't check the current song or anything (because it works at all times, on all screens), but I can change that.
For themes, there's a lua function for taking a screenshot with a prefix and suffix.

Show FPS only:
The skip box is pretty much useless, and should probably go.

FPS:
Anything over 120 FPS is not going to make a bit of visual difference. Unless you like tearing and no vsync that much. The input code is threaded and *NOT* capped to the frame rate of the graphics thread, so even at 60 FPS, the input is still accurate.

Aspect Ratio:
You seriously insist that a rectangular image has to be squished into almost a square and screw the aspect ratio up? You're seriously saying that this should be squished into this? (note: I play on 150% Distant, so it looks more square after being squished)
Whatever, I could code up a special mod that applies zoomx(.75) to the notefield in 2 minutes.

cmods are different:
I seriously don't believe you. Maybe it's because you fucked the aspect ratio and screwed some weird part of the math up. Either way, cmods aren't changing because it would screw everyone else over.

Incrementing speed mods by 1:
You must be on an old version, pre beta 4. Since beta 4, changing your speed mod by 1 can be done from the Player Options menu. Unless you're in a shit theme, which it seems you are. If it's some customized ultralight instead of the main release, it's probably broken to shit by people like you stumbling around trying to change things.

Editing the theme:
You shouldn't have to edit the theme. I wrote the new speed mod picking system so people wouldn't have to edit speed mods in the theme or a config file. I put judgment/combo positions in my options menu. I'll add an option for the bpm position and anything else stupid people bitch over the position of in my theme, because editing a theme to move something is a pain in the ass that breaks shit half the time.

Noteskins:
Jousway converted a bunch of 3.95 noteskins. I guess wafles doesn't know noteskins as well as Jousway does (I don't either, graphics aren't something I give half a shit about spending my time on).

c990 because increments of 10:
There's an option in the options menu for changing the increment size. This is explained in the release notes, and the album I made Jousway post months ago, and in the post I made earlier today. If you're going to complain about not being able to change something, at least try to be right.

step 22:
rofl, lol, you don't even have to edit the lua to change the increment size. It's really simple.


waveout:
Fuck if I know, I don't use windows, and I'm not going to change something I can't test.


To summarize:
I no longer give a shit about 3.9 players if there's that much blithering vitriol involved.