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I was pleasantly surprised as I started reading the new stealth-related conditions - Seen, Concealed, Unseen and Sensed. It's all clear-cut, nicely defined with not much room for misunderstandings.
However - I then went through the Stealth skill and spotted a horrible change from 1E. Part of the Sneak action:
"You automatically become seen if you don’t have cover or
aren’t concealed from them at any time during your movement[...]"
What this means is, the moment you leave an area of concealment or cover, you are instantly revealed and any enemy with line of sight is immediately aware of you.
Practically, this removes a character's ability to sneak out of cover, approach an enemy and attack him while he's still flat-footed.
It also means that you can never go from cover to cover when sneaking around an area, because enemies are treated as always paying attention to every corner around them, even when unaware of an enemy's presence.
This used to be the case for Pathfinder's first edition, however the devs made the very welcome and necessary change of this paragraph:
"When you start your turn using Stealth, you can leave cover or concealment and remain unobserved as long as you succeed at a Stealth check and end your turn in cover or concealment. Your Stealth immediately ends after you make an attack roll, whether or not the attack is successful (except when sniping as noted below)."
I would like to suggest that a similar change be made in 2E's rules. It would really make a sneaky character way more compelling and interesting to play.