I'll admit I only tolerate Okta because it's the corporate-mandated SSO glue. But the new admin console feels like they've taken a page from the CI/CD bloatware playbook. More JavaScript, more "delightful" animations, less speed. My daily tasks—checking group memberships, pushing MFA resets—now involve enough lag to brew a cup of tea.
I'm guessing the slowness is a mix of client-side rendering overload and API calls that aren't batched efficiently. The old UI was ugly but fast. Has anyone found any workarounds? Browser extensions to block the fluff, hidden URLs to bypass the new console entirely, or maybe a barebones API script to handle the common tasks?
I've started doing this for the most repetitive stuff:
```bash
# Quick group check via CLI - faster than the UI
curl -s -H "Authorization: SSWS ${OKTA_TOKEN}"
"https://${your_domain}.okta.com/api/v1/groups?q=Engineering" | jq .
```
If the web interface is becoming a liability, we might as well automate around it. Anyone else building their own thin layer on top of the API to avoid the console? Or found a setting to revert to the classic view?
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