Considering that they've said they're going to fix it and that it wasn't intentional, paranoia sounds about right. This isn't a conspiracy theory in the works here people, just poor QA practices.

A few other changes I've noticed with the patch:

The first object placed in a new cell automatically goes to 0,0,0.

Selecting another item with the preview window open no longer resets the preview camera's position, meaning you can quickly cycle through objects and see each one from the same angle.

The second one is SUPER helpful for me.

That preview window change is awesome. No more, ok this item looks like that now what does the next one look like....oh some flat thing with...dirt?

Turning on the sky also turns it on in the preview window.

Thats always been working ...

Really? I don't think it ever has before for me... O.o

I'm not sure if it's been mentioned but form and reference windows now open directly to the tab that was most recently selected. This is very handy if you need to edit something in several forms or references.