The flip side to this is if you enjoy spending time on the game, then this gives you more to do. So, if you are paying a certain amount to be entertained for a certain number of hours, and now new features add more time to what you enjoy, then this is actually a better value.
But I think it would be nice to have the one click option like before, for those who don't want to spend extra time.
Honestly though, this time around, it didn't take me all that long to get my list. I would like to see a sort feature, where you can single out a group of recruits you have already discovered based on minimum ratings. That would be a time saver. But for me, this time around it went MUCH faster, probably because I figured out what I was doing and a good strategy, and everything worked properly, for the most part.
If I had to guess, in the current version, I spend about 20 minutes getting a target list together, whereas in this one I spend maybe 45 minutes. But because of the lack or a sort function, and because you can't mark multiple players high or low at one time, that part takes longer now. But, I actually enjoy the extra time, and because scouting is able to be done over a much longer period, I don't "feel" rushed to do it, like I often do in the current version. In the current version, if I have no carry over, I know I have 36 hours to scout and prepare for recruiting. In this one, it's way longer.