I have exact same feelings and user experience on new alpha release, so I understand what you are trying to tell. I also rely on drafts and schedules a lot right now, using 3 different accounts and preparing posts for my own blog and for other projects daily, that's why I have to stick with old Surfer 1.1.12 still. But I believe we will shift to 2.0 pretty soon. Maybe next week or in few weeks we will have all the functions we miss and it will work even better than legacy version.