Like I said, I like the new set view options especially. In 2.9.5, it was very difficult sometimes to spin an object around without it going wildly off the screen.formZ is most definitely moving forward and making progress. In my opinion 3.1.1 is lightyears ahead of 2.9.5 and it would be crazy to consider going back to the good old days. Apparently this general area of discussion has been crucial for me. I welcome Greg's arguments because it factually took me a year to learn about critical inconsistencies, not all of them my own.
Little problems can be powerful.
I was completely fooled by View Parameter's failure to set Angle, after use of Zoom Tools. This led to my conviction that it was broken since the beta testing. Posting on the subject several times before was no help in clarifying the combination of inconsistencies. Z presently allows numeric changes in the dialog and keeps them after closing the dialog and reopening the dialog to check, but Z does not invoke the numeric changes. It doesn't work, while the manual and Help suggest it should work that way.