Thanks, I'm now inundated with F-Droid client alternatives.
When so many other clients have sprung up in response to F-Droid's painfully awkward UI one would reckon they'd rethink the change. This is yet another another instance of where developers think that they know best or where they impose their own personal preferences on users but get it completely wrong.
I note that it's not just the number of newly-available clients that have solidified my view, I was very surprised by the number of upvotes I received to my post. Seems many of us think alike.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.looker.droidify/