"New" Outlook search at the title bar - anyone else fed up?

This just appeared on my system today (I thought I was bleeding edge, so I don't understand why I didn't see it sooner - I open Outlook (desktop through Office365) over 50 times a day on 3 different computers).

I am VERY upset.  This is a terrible change.  Who decided "Let's make sure that the product returns inaccurate data."  I specified "search in this folder" and, to no one's surprise, that's what I wanted.  If I meant "search this mailbox" that's what I would have said.  If I meant "search all outlook items" that's what I would have said.  So, if I search a folder, and there are no results, the correct result is NOT "Here is what you didn't want."  This is going to cause SERIOUS data errors (a message at the top saying "the data below is the wrong stuff" (in so many words) is not acceptable.  And the data it produces isn't even useable because, in my normal search, I don't have room for a "Folders" field.  (Yes, I know how to add that field to my view, and I do that when I am intentionally searching "current mailbox" or "all outlook items' - but I don't want that on my routine searches.)  

Now, if there had been a new option that said "When my folder doesn't have a match show me other stuff anyway" that would have been fine - I could have unchecked the box.  Or if there was a box for "Expert Mode - I am not an idiot so please just do what I tell you" that would be fine.  But they didn't offer those options.  Instead they just decided to produce the WRONG data in response to a search request.

Agreed.  Of course they can change it, they've simply decided not to despite ongoing complaints from users.  My IT department was also able to help me revert to the older view.

Yes they told me the same thing, but it's not true.  My coworker had her outlook updated several weeks ago, and it completely screwed up all her contacts.  So the tech helped her roll it back to a previous version, and the search was back to the good one

• just above the emails.    So it 'can' be done, they just won't do it.

I despise the new change, but according to the User Voice Portal, looks like we can't get the good one back:

Search At The Top Option

Please allow users to choose whether to use Search at the Top or keep the search bar in the legacy location.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/search-at-the-top-96fee452-80cd-492d-a35c-5c37584b416b

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DECLINED  ·  Desktop Outlook 2016 UserVoice (Customer Support Agent, Outlook.com) responded

Thank you to everyone who provided feedback through UserVoice, Coming Soon, in product feedback, and on related blog posts.

We investigated adding an option to support search in the old location. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot support making the search box location configurable. Future Microsoft Search updates are incompatible with the old location. There is also significant risk in maintaining the old search component due to increased complexity that leads to a higher rate of bugs. As one of the most used controls in Outlook making sure that we provide a stable and reliable search experience is one of our top priorities.

While it won’t address the feedback of having the search box in a new location, we do have fixes coming soon to address specific feedback about the new control. The first fix to arrive will be adding back the right click Copy\Paste menu. After that we have a fix coming to make changing scope easier by adding a more prominent scope changing control. You can read more details about these fixes in our blog post.

While our search success data is showing that the majority of users are having more success with the new search experience, we understand that moving the search box is a big change that can be disruptive. From the product team, thank you for your patience as we continue to learn how to make Outlook changes easier going forward and continue to work on improving the search experience.