I've been a customer since the first release on the AppStore. Gave v8 a chance, worse than expected

I'll be honest: I've pretty much just given up on 1PW mini. Two issues that make it pretty useless for me:
1. Instead of appearing at the top of whichever window/space I'm in, it takes me away to a blank space
2. It is populated automatically with a bunch of sites I never really need to search for, and I'm totally unclear as to why it shows six seemingly random, largely unused sites. I use the browser extension mainly (which is ok, but does not, oddly, provide the password history so I'd need to go to the main app for that, which seems odd since the browser extension has room for it in the dropdown, seemingly).

I'm not ready to abandon 1PW. Overall, my experience with v8.x hasn't been anywhere near as bad as I expected. But finding things can be challenging, and I've already had to post at least one or two queries in this forum to find things or figure out how to do things that were obvious in v7.x and earlier.

So for 1PW to be at least more useful, it should never take the user to another window but rather display in the current window (perhaps tethered to the menubar) and there should not be results populated when opened unless, perhaps, it's the most recent or common searches by the user. Or just leave it blank until something is entered in the search box.

I concur that this seems tuned and intended for keyboard jockeys. I'm one of them, but not for everything, and it's challenging enough to remember the shortcut to open the mini window as it is (since some of us also use shortcuts to invoke things like Alfred, etc, and too many keyboard shortcuts become impossible to remember or else get confused with others). Alfred and Spotlight both open in the window I'm currently occupying; why can't/shouldn't 1PW mini?

Thanks.