I agree with everything the OP said.
I am not a fan of this change.
- The green bar across the top serves no purpose; the logo and menu links should be moved up and incorporated into this bar.
- You need to re-add the quick links to access Geocaches (Yours) and Trackables (Yours).
- There is too much white space on the main menu.
- The green bar across the top when viewing the map is unnecessary and takes up valuable screen real estate.
- Overall, the old version was a whole lot better. It made better use of the available screen space and all of the pages I wanted to visit were accessible from the main page.