Well, PTC has been tinkering with Prime for over 10 years now. In the meantime, they actually killed Mathcad 15 even though they still haven't managed to come up with at least a somewhat worthy successor in all that time.
I agree that it was much more comfortable to have the period for subscript, to start text with " or just start typing and at the first space, the writing will automatically convert to text. But there are so many things that have become more tedious, lengthy, and more complicated in Prime than we were used to in Mathcad. The ones mentioned are only a small part of it. Actions in Prime usually require more keystrokes and/or mouse actions than is and was necessary. Just a bad workflow (and the reason for this is not that we are used to old MC and not willing to learn new handling). Not to mention the slow behavior and the still severely lacking functionality.
Since I don't want to assume that PTC would not be able to create something significantly better in more than a decade than we now have with Prime, I have to assume that the will is missing and thus of course also the will to take improvement suggestions and wishes seriously. That's why I wrote that I consider this collection of ideas to be an eyewash.
But it is nice to hear that apparently in Prime 9 at least one or the other little thing (I almost wrote self-evidents) like maybe the easier creation of texts is implemented again after such a long time. But thats just like giving us a few breadcrumbs to keep us quite while the half meal is still missing.
However, I think that a software that was launched more than 10 years ago to replace Mathcad would have to be at a significantly different level of development today and we wouldn't have to wish for features that were already self-evident in MC 10 years ago.
I hope that my disappointment and frustration about what PTC has screwed up is understandable, and also why I no longer have any confidence that there will be coming anything significant better in the short or medium term.
