It's doubly ironic because the person that new system is named after - a now-retired analyst called Carol Floyd - has been extremely helpful in the past.
Around 2002, I had extensive email correspondence with her about providing access to a bunch of around 90,000 accident records prior to 1982, which up to then were gathering dust in an inaccessible recess of the NTSB's database. The end result was to make those records queryable and downloadable online. In fact if I look 3 feet above my head as I type, I can see a ring binder labelled "NTSB 1962-1982 Coding Manual".
The new system is a dumbed-down disaster. Fortunately, the underlying data is still downloadable via FTP, so that's something at least.