Do you know what happened? Making buttons used to be so simple almost anyone could do it, it's just insane to make it harder, paypal has probably lost a lot of people over this! I used to be able to easily and quickly make buttons for clients that had multiple options for customers to select, dynamic text field to collect information or ask questions, redirect to thank you page, etc and those all appear to be gone.

I'm making a site for myself that sells services. I need to be able to collect various data for customers and give them option to select dates, multiple dates and hours and more than one service and it appears that can only be done now with a separate button for each and every possible combination of every service I'm selling and that is just INSANE. 

I think it really was just really outrageously stupid to pull the old buttons before an "improvement" was completed. Also, if paypal is making it so you have to have someone who can set up api or do a bunch of coding whatever, paypal will NOT get back people it has lost, they'll be gone forever. Make your service or product EASIER for people to get/use, not harder!