Ugh. Just ugh. I suppose I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that, in fact, most heavy users of Illustrator prefer this behavior, but I absolutely hate it. It used to be, if you selected a text block, and rotated it, it would, in fact, rotate the text to whatever angle you released the mouse at. Not any more. It now rotates the block, but not the text within:

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Now, then, you must perform an extra Transform operation to get the text rotated. The UI for this sucks already, so I see this as a big step backwards in what is otherwise a really wonderful iteration on a generally great app. Fail!