My confusion stems from why I am not seeing these issues, yet they are
I offered a (possible) explanation for this in my previous response.
Many users also don't have the privilege of using Gospel Library on new iOS devices, and users of the iPad 2 especially tended to have some of the more terrible technical issues.
The sentence you've focused on in your replies to me was intended to be tied to that sentence, not to attack you. The fact is that it's mostly older devices that are experiencing many of the worst of the bugs (although, it is, of course, not
exclusively these devices). My own iPad Air, for example, ran into the issue where it couldn't launch the app after updating for 4.0. My issue was fixed by simply reinstalling the app from the App Store. For many people, that simply didn't fix the problem.
Further, many other issues people are experiencing aren't bugs at all--they're just bad design. The biggest complaint against version 4 on both iOS and Android is the new way in which users are forced to interact with their notes and other annotations. Users were accustomed to being able to simply view them all alongside the references ("related content") pane that popped out on the side of the app. The problem is now, in order to view these annotations, a user must divine which icon on the side of the screen relates to the annotation they're hoping to see. There isn't a way to just see them all in a list, nor a way to just see them all inline in the text, like there is on the Windows version of the application. This is where a very large chunk of the anger is coming from, with some users on these very forums exclaiming that version four looks like it was designed by someone who doesn't actually
use Gospel Library for scripture study. While that may be unfair, design problems like these should have been caught and fixed in the beta. (Hence my own comment about a beta-quality release.) Thankfully for these users, it has been confirmed that this issue will be going away in a future update. See this post:
https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 44#p163344
Further, because this new version of the app is so new, many features the developers deemed "lower priority" just haven't made it into the application yet (if they indeed are planned to make it back in at all). Many of the most vocal users on both iOS and Android are understandably frustrated by the loss of these features. Some features have simply changed how they work (like updating a bookmark), and this, too, has frustrated users.
It's not that there was a beta accidentally pushed to the Store, it's just the the app lacks in areas it didn't used to and has bugs that cripple the application on various devices. The startup bug is apparently fixed now (as of an update about a week ago), but that hasn't taken the bad taste out of users' mouths.