Something that surprises me still isn’t better in ACF is that the error msgs a user receives when updating/publishing a post aren’t clearer if they’ve not completed all the ACF fields marked as required.
Specifically, the error should report what meta box they are in (in case there are multiple on screen) and in what TAB (if there are tabs). This would be SOOO much more useful.
I had a case or two recently where it was very difficult to find the errors in edit pages with lots of fields.