Elements of bad user experience from the previous UI are still present in the new one... Some of the new changes are actually a downgrade.

[Arheo]

Yes, it's extremely annoying to try to select a battle in progress. There's these two giant heads on either side which you might think would take you to the combat view, but it goes to the respective character view which seems... well, I can't imagine when I would ever use this feature instead of just clicking on the combat first and then being able to go from there to the character view of the respective generals. And the huge sword icon as well is a bit visually busy for my taste.

I have spent some time refactoring the battle widget - should be a fair few improvements coming.