Weekly Timesheet Entry Since Recent Update

I sat on the phone with support yesterday because I was not able to enter projects (sub customer) jobs by project number for adding time to employee timesheets. (for projects added in the past 2 weeks-since the update) 

It was a simple matter to bring up the employee and then begin to enter time by entering project number. The project would display and I could easily select it. 

After close to an hour on the phone with support, I was told that QBO has removed that capability and now I can only enter time by typing in the project name. 

Isn't this a move backward?  What does this help or improve?  Why would QBO/Intuit want to move back in technology?  It makes no sense to make things more time consuming rather than streamline and make things more productive.