<Update>
Skype 11.19.820.0
Gotten better but still very clunky UI.
You get a dial pad when you do a normal phone call dial now
But the UI to input conference pass-code is still unusable. Its not that difficult to make a workable UI for joining a conference. At our company we use skype business. It has a 10 digit conference pass-code (other call systems they are even longer), I join them all day long... And instead of copy phone number, paste, copy code , paste... which is what I did for years (to the point of even sending out meeting invites where (especially for mobile and road users) they could click on the number to dial and the phone would have commas to delay typing in the passcode so they could join without fighting small txt and a 10 digit number to join.
Now we can't even use the numbers on the laptop to dial in.. I have to use a mouse to press the "button" for each number.
And when someone (or conference bridge) you join like webex, calls you to bridge you in, you have to hunt for 15 seconds to find a way (and sometimes can't ) to get a dial pad to open so you can dial the *1 to say "yes I do want to join this call"
Skype is now so bad all our office users who use to use it a lot have started forwarding their skype numbers without any ring delay to their cell phones as the VOIP phone on the computers are now worthless. So this drives up costs (pay for forwarding feature) as well as minutes used on cell. For some, they use skype to allow them to pick up business calls separate from personal, but they are all dumped to cell so that is now lost.
