I have to agree with @wale’s statement here, it is cumbersome to get the new desk up and running and somehow efficient.
Also, we have noted that hidden cards cannot be reactivated, drop-down arrows are disappearing (How I broke my desktop dropdown menu). This does need urgent attention.
Easy access to doctypes has also been proposed, e.g. in Improving desktop 2.0
Also, changing User > Home Settings in many cases seems to have no impact on the actually shown cards, even with reload, logout/login, …