The new system of classification of plugins in the browser is excellent but the old method should also have been retained.
Please add the old method too, ie..... SORT BY FOLDERS.
It has its own uses (for people like me)

The way  plugins are stored in my VST folder is .... I have folders named "EQ", "COMP", "DIST" etc... and relevant vsts inside these folders.
Thus every thing was organized for me.....untill this new system which removed the "SORT by FOLDER" option completely and jumbled up my well organized plugins.

More unproductive work added..... I will have to categorize my 1000+ plugins ....again....
 

How many of your 1000+ plugins do you actually use?

  .... adding the 'Sort by Folders' option will be useful

Do not select a Sort option. The layout should be by type by OS folder similar to 2016.07.

Bristol_Jonesey
How many of your 1000+ plugins do you actually use?

I wish plugin scanners would put out this message.

Bristol_Jonesey
How many of your 1000+ plugins do you actually use?

A very valid and sensible work-a-day question - probably less than a score (no pun) but like everything else in life better to have and not need than need and not have (at least "have on tap," as it were).
 
Pragmatically, the SAME question could be asked about the many, many thousands of instruments and sounds one may have within their combined hardware synths and VSTi's.  Not to mention their PRIMARY physical instrument (in my case 50 plus guitars - I use maybe half a dozen 99% of the time).
 
I have workstations and keyboard synths from Yamaha, Korg, Roland, Alesis, and Nord and a large rack full of synth modules (mainly same mfg's).  And the usual suspect list of plug-ins: NI Komplete, Spectrasonics Omisynth, UVI Falcon, EW libs, XLN, uHe, Kirk Hunter, IK, and many dozens of "one off's" not to mention all CW products accumulated over the years Rapture Pro, Dim Pro, Z3TA,..
 
Acoustic pianos alone I have hundreds of which I use maybe five (a mixable jazz, a mixable rock, and three solo's one for classical, jazz, and rock respectively).
 

miracledee
The way  plugins are stored in my VST folder is .... I have folders named "EQ", "COMP", "DIST" etc... and relevant vsts inside these folders.

 
Presumably you created this as a custom layout? If you don't check anything, you can select it. All the custom layouts I had prior to 2016.08 are still there.

scook
Do not select a Sort option. The layout should be by type by OS folder similar to 2016.07.

Thanks a lot scook, that worked great....