What changed. Selected areas now render as chips inside the field, and the criteria-badge bar below the form is gone. The area plugin is the single place you see and manage where you are searching.

Try it: type Den (3 characters minimum), pick Denver, then pick Boulder too. Then click into the field — it clears, opens the panel, and lists both with an X each. Typing again shows matches underneath those.

The thing that was broken: on the old build, clicking into that field deleted your selection — the chip overlay covered the input, so a click landed on the chip and unchecked it. Only about 10px at the left edge was clickable. See the before →

Chips are display-only — no checkbox, no type label, no X. Removal is in the panel, per the issue. Long names ellipsise; several chips clip on the right, and the panel always lists them all.

Design-review surface, not release evidence — it does not exercise the deploy path this ships through.