It is bad as a whole.
Sorry to hear that.
In my opinion the interface has been on a downward spiral ever since it tried to mimic Windows 8. I used to recommend avast to people, but I'm not comfortable doing that any more.
You use and recommend an AV for it's ability to protect you.
People are visual creatures and you know it. If something looks unprofessional, ugly or hard to navigate, they'll avoid it even if it otherwise provides 100% detection. I know this first hand from my real job. We help customers find the desired product, they love everything about it, but then comes the big one "But that color is so ugly." And yes, MANY customers decide not to buy a device which has a sole function of making your life easier just because it comes in a color they don't like. And we aren't talking a mobile phone or a car here. We are talking about devices which are hidden in a closet 99% of the time and when they are used, no one is around to see how ugly colored it is. No, I'm not talking about self pleasuring devices lol XD Imagine steam iron or a vacuum cleaner.
Yes, detection surely is a No.1 on the priority list, but visual presentation comes in on strong second place. The third would be price in my opinion from observations of people. Fourth, the tech support and community. Do you get the feeling how important visual presentation is now?
What saddens me is that avast! team didn't consider any of the small changes we recommended which basically just involved re-arranging what they already have and which could be done with minimal effort and time needed to execute it. They could push the GUI with this from rather poor to a pretty damn decent state. Just by shifting few things around! I just don't get it.
Look at Kaspersky Antivirus 2017 interface and then look at avast! 17 BETA interface. All I can say is I rest my case. I hate it comparing to competition like this, but my words don't seem to be understood by some. Speed, visually appealing design, logical layout, consistency of elements and interface itself. All the things Kaspersky has and this new avast!'s interface doesn't. And I could get past all the silly inconsistencies if they only split up on-access and on-demand task and settings in the main GUI. But they insist on keeping it crammed together. That part annoys me so much. First of all it's crammed, it's badly laid out, because it's so little space with everything crammed in there, they couldn't even add Behavior Shield to the list, that "Pi" button to show statistics, like I've said million times it's microscopic and impossible to tap with a finger on a touch device like Windows tablet. I just don't know and understand why they are heading in this direction.