No.

I love skype but this new "improved" update is terrible, everyones copying everyone. Skype is now like Facebook and Snapchat. This is terrible ?

Editing this. Skype fix all of this. Go back to the way u were the way everyone loved it. Do another update to put the old design and old everything back everyone loved how u could put a mood message now u cant. Everyone loved how simple it was to see if your friends were online or not. Everyone loved how easy it was to use skype.
I use skype almost every night because my fiancé is in the Army and we go to sleep on skype together, weve been using skype for a little over 3 years now, for the reason he has an android and i have an Iphone but i loved the older version much better, it was so easy to just call him or message him, or see if he was on. I hate skype now and will probably talk to my fiance about deleting it and switching to a different video chatting app. Hopefully just until Skype is back to the way it was if they decide to go back and listen to all of us.

Juliie2017 about Skype for iPhone, v8.2.1