Steam client store is really really slow for me for several months now.

No, if you're not in the beta you enable that and restart. It clears something in your Steam installation that nothing else I tried at the time seems to clear. Afterwords you can turn it back off again if you want.

Ooh thanks. I went in with an open mind and what I got back was mostly "we're gonna throw even more things you've never cared about at you, and at in increased volume!" Since I don't have any interest in multiplayer/social/curator based stuff or knowing what my friends are always doing. It was mostly meh announcements. It really felt like triple attack advertising solely done to increase game sales (steam itself/curators/peer pressure) but I get it, being a Unity conference. For some reason though it was still interesting enough for me to watch the whole video.

I also understand that because of the place this presentation was done, the features I really do care about weren't the focus. One thing that really grabbed my attention though was the presence of a slide about client improvements and redesign but it was flipped through immediately and not talked about at all (also because of the venue no doubt) but its enough to know its there. I just hope... they don't make it worse, lol. I can see it happening but I truly hope for the best. 8)