Ha ha! Received the email about the update on 6/29 yesterday. Woke up today with system telling me to insert my smart card. So I did, system restarted, but no upgrade yet. I don't know if this was a failed attempt at upgrading or what...
If I were you, I would give the new UI about (2) days and then call Dish with your complaints 'cause you will have them. I'd skip the HWS and go straight for the Hopper 3. Tell them up-front that you're willing to pay a 'reasonable' charge and you will commit to a new 2-year agreement (not that you'd have a choice on the 2-year commitment part). Do this before too many customers do the same and Dish possibly puts an end to free to low-cost upgrades.
I already have the HWS so I'll wait to see if the UI performance is acceptable to me. I've read that the CUI degrades the performance of the HWS only somewhat. Come June 29th, I shall see.
Both my HWSs performance is ok for me with the new CUI. My Joey 1 is a little slow but everything works great. Why wait, if you have the time and nothing recording, down load it yourself so you can deal with any issues instead of waking up one morning and being is a state of shock. You should have an App to do it in your HWS apps. You will feel better you did it your self and wasn't forced on you. Good luck.
