> previously there were more questions where it was necessary to type in the full translation, but now in most exercises we only need to input a single word or rearrange the word cards.

This is a complaint I keep seeing regarding the new layout, but it seems disingenuous to me, as every one who notes it also skips over the fact that the linear lessons now also have large yet optional testing components at the end of every section. If you choose to skip these, yes, you are going to see many easier questions, as the nodes on the track are lessons. The tests are almost exclusively long form written questions, not the easy format you describe.

For all of the gripes of the new linear path format, this choice in how you learn is never put forward.

Before the format change, this separation of easy vs hard didn't really exist, not even on L5 for the nodes that made them finish and go purple.

In my experience, this has allowed me to focus in the end of section tests, where I still regular fail to pass due to the 3 lives provided. This forced use of long form + no mistakes has really forced me to understand and parse my errors. For all the complaining that I've seen in the in-app comments for certain translations being incorrectly rejected, I've yet to come across one myself. Instead, it's always something else that I got just almost right, but still wrong. A bad gender, missing/wrong participle, pronoun in wrong place, typo etc. It's really hard to spot your own errors especially when it will only give you a single correct answer back when you got it wrong (despite many other valid translations are accepted and understand too). Being able to spot your own errors though has been invaluable as I feel I've gotten a lot better at it since the format change.

If I weren't doing the tests, it definitely would feel much easier.