I have used STAAD Pro V8i for 4 years in every day in my work. With SS6 the most of menu icon are place in top or left screen.
I can access to command by move mouse over and single click. It's very easy most of my activities are click click and click.
But now with Connected edition , the menu icons have remove substitute with new ribbon style. When i want to use command i must click
on ribbon(group) first and then click the menu icon. This will double or triple or more clicking activities when I want to create
beam >> plate >> beam >> node ....etc
It's ok to that new version have new capabilities which better than old version but they don't think about user behavior
we are not "Word user" which most of them use only keyboard typing but with STAAD it's different.
If you have to model a large scale building with many element it's will take a long time.
For the final this is only my opinion if possible please you get more feed back from user and improve about this.
Best regard.
S. Khamnurak