This is the sole reason I stopped playing and I'm visiting the forums from time to time to check if they fixed it. It tilted me more than it should. Probably not even the fact that they took the feature away, just that they seem to all agree it was better WITH the feature than without it, yet they won't bring it back, because...
... even though this doesn't seem to be high on their list of priorities. How is it better to keep current, broken state of this matter until it's "improved" rather than reverting, again, even if only until it's "improved"? I already asked before and they seemed to agree that no one ever complained about how it works before they broke it, yet it's still ignored.
Funny you call it a bug (as almost all the players seeing this behavior change would)! This is a feature according to the devs.
I'm afraid the reason why they wouldn't revert is is beyond my understanding... I hate it so much that I only played 2 battles on 1.5.10 beta and didn't even try 1.6.0. Not gonna do it until they fix it. No idea what they tried to do by disabling this ability. I don't get what was broken, what was it supposed to fix.