Thank you, MyStylCraft, for posting this. Your work is outstanding! (I tried to post on this a month ago but glitchy forums wouldn't let me.) I, too, strongly disagree which the deletion of the Handmade filter in Search. Lumping together "handmade, handpicked, or designed by" creates only more confusion for customers who are genuinely seeking authentic, quality handmade goods. Handpicked is Vintage and the "designed by" is a huge loophole being used by legions of resellers of the very same wholesale catalog, factory mass produced junk. Basically, they lie through their teeth saying that they are the designer - it's baloney and has ruined many an authentic Etsy Handmade sellers trade here. Since the new Creativity Standards were implemented, my shop views are next to nothing. In fairness, I've been working to build stock for large art markets where I've had the very best show in my many, many decades of doing nationally juried events. Etsy is chaos by design and has been for at least the past 7 years, alas. Been here since 2007 so I remember the good days. Have gone back to doing in-person events and that market has been very strong despite inflation and other concerns. Patrons of the arts want to and continue to support artists.
