I have a couple of problems with this article, the first and most glaring of which is the fact that the author is conflating the new iPad UI with the iPhone UI. The second problem is that the author went out of her way to turn on every possible option for the control center, then complains that can’t tell what things are - using specific examples that aren’t even on by default.

I personally like the new iPad UI - it makes it a lot easier to task switch to an app that may be several apps back in my history, and enables great drag-and-drop capabilities.