Picking a slide template is faster, and there is less to read

The template step of the new-deck wizard used to download every slide of every template the moment it opened — eighty images before you had pointed at anything. It now loads one preview per template and fetches the rest only for the card you hover, focus or touch, so the grid is there when you arrive instead of filling in around you. The category filter, the category badge and the tag chips are gone: every template is an agency pitch deck, so they sorted nothing and cost a row of reading on each card. And the template that is already selected — the one from your last deck, or Light & Modern on your first — now opens as the first card in the grid, where you can see it, instead of wherever the list happened to put it.

Two smaller changes ride along. The previews are now requested while you are still on the step before, so the grid opens already filled. And a plain "New deck" visit no longer brings the notes from your last deck with it — they were written about that client, and had no business in the next one's brief. Using "same settings" from a specific deck still copies them, because there the client is the same. If the template list fails to load, the step now says so and offers a retry instead of showing an almost-empty grid.