I have the new version and have a couple of observations:
1. The new skills system is just a thin layer over the old one. So the old skills system still exists underneath. In many situations and menus you see the old system. The most obvious place is the "prepare carefully" menu which is shows the old skills system organized in a couple of tabs. Also, in the skills tab on a dwarf's menu you see the dwarf's skills organized according to the old system.
2. The new system is awful and makes the game unplayable for any advanced player. It is one of those situations where they tried to make things simpler and made them much more complicated instead.
So whoever is doing dwarf therapist, please get it done it is more needed than ever. That new $30 game that hundreds of thousands of people are buying right now is downright unplayable at advanced level without it. If I do not get dwarf therapist soon, I will be looking to get my money back.
I know tarn said that he did not want to have players look at spreadsheets, but guess what you made that type of a game. Skills are extremely important in DF, a skilled farmer here a skilled stonecrafter there, can increase your food or wealth by a factor of three or four. And a skilled armorer can easily win battles. But now you cannot make your dwarves do the jobs that they are skilled in, you cannot get them to improve their skills?
So yeah .... please someone get Dwarf Therapist going so that I can enjoy this game I have been looking forward to for such a long time.