I must say ...
It's a massive improvement. They've fixed the biggest gripes I had with Gmail contacts; the location of the button, easily seeing which tags a contact has, custom phone number labels (which has been in Android's Gmail app from day one, and they even showed correctly in the web-based Gmail), but best of all the automatically "saved" contact details are now completely separate from your "real" contacts and therefore easily deletable!!
Nice one Google.