With the 0.0.7 release the new command was removed in favour of a unified init command for all creation of new projects. So sysand init initializes a new project in the current directory as before and if you want to create a new directory and initialize it then use sysand init my_project instead of new.
It was a bit unfortunate that this change came about at the tail end of Advent of SysML. Hopefully it hasn’t caused too much confusion.