Is iOS 7 Killing Folders?

Hi,

After upgrading to iOS7, I noticed a bizarre "feature": while a standard screen will hold a 4x5 grid of icons + up to six in the dock ( = 26 icons to click), when you open a folder, the same screen only admits up to 9 icons in a 3x3 grid (relegating the remaining items from that folder to subsequent screens), leaving a stupendously humongous amount of wasted space. It is then more efficient to put collections of related icons on another screen than to put them in a folder. The question in the title is perhaps rhetorical (unless iOS programmers read), but I'd sill like to know if I'm the only iPad user ticked off by this "upgrade" in the design.

Thanks, Tristan