College Board's Transition from Physics B AP to Physics 1/2 AP an Epic Failure?

My school’s situation is very similar to @Gatortristan’s. Many of my friends and I went into AP Physics 1 with absolutely no prior knowledge of physics, and were told that since my teacher gets a pretty high pass rate on the former test, the new one should be okay. That was definitely NOT the case; so far I know most people got 1s and 2s, but only 2 people have gotten 3s ( one of them being me, my guessing skills were amazing that day apparently ). The test was so difficult, I can recall that on exam day many people just gave up on the test and starting drawing in the free response section lol.