SE seems to go out of their way to force clunky, inelegant clients upon us. While I'm happy to be rid of playonline, we're left with a labyrinthine account management system and a hopeless updater.

Last night I got 15% of the update with the official client in 30 minutes. I closed it, and downloaded the update to completion in 25 minutes via Utorrent. If Utorrent can do it with no user intervention, SE's client should be able to as well.