I agree with everything you've said here. I wasn't missing any of the new features except perhaps "hanging punctuation".
I can't see how I can justify the high price tag for this upgrade, particularly as the Tool Palette has now been hamstrung by pushing the Link and Unlink Tools into popup menus hidden under the Text Box. I cannot fathom how this could be considered "helpful" to long-term users, and I wish I could undo it.
How does one get the punctuation to actually hang, by the way? I can't work it out.
Michael Everson