This is a huge improvement imo, and something that should be seen as a great advancement in usability. We've gone from needing to use hotkeys (paredit) to not needing to use them and having the machine figure out what you want to do.
Maybe others have different opinions, but I find this way of doing things a lot more natural and usable. It's like an old Oblivion mod for archery that asked the question: "Why do other archery mods have a hotkey for denocking your arrow? We just automatically denock if you look at the ground. It just makes sense."
This. It may not be huge for someone who is accustomed to those hotkeys, but for everyone this is a big deal. Imagine not having to commit those hotkeys to (muscle) memory at all.
Maybe others have different opinions, but I find this way of doing things a lot more natural and usable. It's like an old Oblivion mod for archery that asked the question: "Why do other archery mods have a hotkey for denocking your arrow? We just automatically denock if you look at the ground. It just makes sense."