I just got a notification that you gave a recent like to my comment from May and it brought me back to this issue. So I have to ask - Did you ever find the means to create a recurring invoice from within the new layout? If not, I did, just this past week!! I honestly have no idea how long this new(old) feature has been available because I stumbled upon it accidentally, in a completely different place than where it used to be. Let me know if you need the deets!