'in fact, I have found that the more ebay tinkers and meddles, the more hours I have to put in.'

Yes - even if you just want a quick glance at completed listings, to get an idea of prices for something you might want to sell, or buy, it takes longer these days because of the poor search function.

And sorting a seller's sold listings by high to low used to show the accepted best offer price, but not any more - although you can sometimes see what price was accepted if the buyer leaves feedback, but more often, the price is just struck through. Anyway, by the time you've done all the extra clicking and scrolling and filtering to get to the feedback, chances are you've forgotten what you were wanting to look at... 😬

I think it's eBay that need to 'do their homework', and correct the problems they have created!