I was annoyed by the new search bar so I wrote a quick userscript to fix it, since it shouldn't be that hard to fix. might as well share it.
used with "tampermonkey" extension in Chrome. alter as desired.
https://pastebin.com/g7zWCBeN
current features:
- hides the search bar and "flair" bar by default
- adds a search button which will toggle visibility of the search bar
- (actually adds 3 search buttons due to the selector used; seems ok to me so I left it)
- "flair" bar is completely unavailable since I don't use it, but it could have its own button too
- reduces excessive amounts of padding that the search bar and search list were given
- really meant for desktop, not mobile, not sure it'll work in every platform. the tons of padding for example is probably meant for touchscreens.
images (note that I use gamefaqs zoomed to 150%):
for reference, this is what it looks like normally: