They killed Projects and replaced it with a different product that kept the name

Max 20x subscriber here, and I'm an attorney. Projects was the reason I pay for Claude. It was simple: a folder for each case. Persistent files every chat could read, standing instructions, and a clean list of separate chats. One for the demand letter, one for discovery, one for a motion, all drawing on the same case file. Today I made a new project and that's gone. Claude's own intro screen says it: "A project used to be a folder. Now it's one ongoing chat." What you get now looks like a SaaS dashboard, not Claude. There's one endless conversation with a coordinator bot. Your requests get spun off into threads in a side panel, sorted into "Working," "Idle," and "Waiting on you." There are status checklists, squiggly "New" lines, preview cards, an Overview tab and a Library. It even lives under Claude Code, which I've never used. There's no list of chats, no simple project knowledge panel, and no toggle to go back. Old projects still work, but you can't make new ones that way. The only thing this shares with Projects is the name.