[travisjungroth]

These are high speed actions and usually all home-row. The return hit increases the time a significant percentage. They’re also easily undone, so the cost of mistakes is low.

Imagine needing to hit return every time you ctrl-v. Really no point when ctrl-z is available.

[shadowgovt]

Well the good news is it should be straightforward to customize the old behavior back for people who don't like the trade-off.

[travisjungroth]

It should be, but the change didn’t have it as a setting.