senbon: However the biggest insult (to me) is that the UI simply doesn't reduce the memory load
(e.g. you have to remember which books you have read etc.).
That's true - the UI doesn't provide the necessary information at the time you need it. You don't see the stats of your current equipment when you're buying new stuff, you don't get to know whether you've read a book or not when you browse through them in the inventory, it doesn't show you how much ingredients you have left while making potions, etc.
I was a bit disappointed not to have fixes for the game's remaining problems in the patch announcement. Still, there's some nice stuff ^^