Why I don't like 中文字譜(zhōngwén zìpǔ) that much anymore.

I was much impressed by Chinese Characters: A Genealogy and Dictionary and the associated website zhongwen.com when I bought the book and started using the site. But am starting to be disappointed and eager to try out other resources. Here's why:

• Even though finding a character in the dictionary is easier than with a traditional radical-based dictionary, I still sometimes get stuck in dead-ends and skimming through long lists of very tinily printed characters is no fun.
• The etymological ordering in the dictionary is great to find components of a character and characters that use the same components which is a great help for learning. However, since the ordering is etymological and not just by character-shape, this is often not what I want. If a component of a character looks like 日 (for example) then I want to memorize it what that component and not with some other more complicated component that is given as the root in the dictionary and was shortened to 日 during the course of history.
• The website has some bugs (characters not displayed properly) and is not very much maintained any more. (Although it is running Google Ads on the side and I suppose the author is still making good money from it, as well as the book royalties, given how popular both are.)
• The website precedes unicode and all the characters are embedded as graphics. That's really impractical compared to newer dictionaries to and from which I can simply copy and paste characters to my notes or directly input a Chinese character from the keyboard, instead of doing a search for it. Hardcoded graphics also mean that the website is stuck with a very small font that clearly shows pixels and sometimes has the (complex Chinese!) characters unreadable in the list views. (Note: some of the historic characters and only-component characters are probably unexistent in unicode, but they could easily be kept as (better quality) graphics while the rest of the page is transformed to use scalable (and anti-aliasable) fonts.)

In spite of all this, I am still using the site to dissect all the new characters I want to learn...