Meaning of 5433d71

"Text styles are gone but will be come back as more generic substyles or subtypes for some element types."

This sounds quite frightening!

Styles are a well-known and widely used way to ensure stylistic consistency across different elements and different files (in MuseScore case, across scores). If text styles are gone, then this stylistic consistency is also gone or has to ensured manually, which is time consuming and very, very error prone.

I would have expected a move in the opposite direction, implementing more styles (real paragraph styles, page styles and so on), rather than seeing one of the more useful features of MuseScore scraped mercilessly.

This seems to me a rather big step toward a less easy and less quick way of working, the tag line for version 3 notwithstanding.

If this is going to hold, I really really hope that eventually version 3 will have ways to:

1) ensure stylistic consistency across several score elements and across several scores, as styles used and were able to do;

2) styles from version 2.x scores will be correctly imported in version 3 scores, including custom styles (which I use a lot and for almost any score); if not, this will the third time I have to manually adjust styles for my now rather sizeable collection of scores and this will quite probably force me to stick to version 2.x and ignore version 3, as I do not have the resources to do it. It would also show that MuseScore seems not to suit fairly sized and/or mid-to-long-term projects.

Hoping for the best...