my guess is that noone here knows why they had this mindblowing idea. this changed right after the big update recently, right?
u could write customer support and give ur feedback (which probably will not change anything).
They can't do major updates without making weird changes. Sometimes it seems like they just forgot how it used to be. The short buy table buy ins are a lot different too. I think they just do things on accident and stick with it unless there's a huge outcry.