Unfortunately there are a number of folk in the forum who decided 1.8 was a massive failure before it even landed. They immediately look for negatives and ignore any and all positives.
If Roon had included a new feature whereby CTRL+U made a unicorn pop out of your screen and start to $hit Bitcoin these same people would still find something to moan about.
Im very happy with 1.8 from what Ive seen so far.
Nice job Roon 
I will definitely be renewing my subscription when its due.