AI CS6 took away the Opacity sliders

Okay i really need to go against every other post i've skimmed in this conversation.
i LOVE the intervals. I'm a vector artist, and let me tell you, i was so delighted that CS6 changed the old slider to these percentage intervals. it made things so much more efficient.
Say i make a picture, and i'm doing shading and i need to have a lot of objects with a lowered opacity. but they all need to be the same. I don't want some specific number, with the intervals I can just select 20%, "no, too light", select 30%, "okay that's good".
i don't want to have to move the slider very carefully down and get it on EXACTLY 30, i don't need 31, i don't need 29, i need a straight simple number.. and i certainly don't want to be selecting the box and then typing in 30. or whatever number i'm going for.
I don't need things to be precise, I need things to be efficient and time saving.
And with gradients. why on earth would I, say, want a point in the gradient to be at something like 51.234%? i want it at *50*. with the intervals it saves so much time cus you can jsut go click click, click click, and everything's exactly where it is. and of course if you NEED somethign spicific, you can still type the number in.

In CC they've taken out the intervals that I thought were so much more efficient and moved it back to the slider. I just got to the point of the shading in a picture i'm doing and i flat out refuse to go around wasting time dragging a slider to a nitpicky position.
I would like to know if it is possible to change it BACK to the percentage intervals on the creative cloud products

As some people so obviously prefer the slider, they shouldn't just have one or the other, it should be an option to set it to which you prefer.
This will save me a few hours of time on my pictures. could anyone help?
*lost in the vast maze that is the preferences window*

I find AE's drag control is the most comfortable way to do it, I don't know why it's not implemented.

This was THE first thing I noticed when I started getting into AI6. It baffles me that they did this. Any artist worth their weight will be absolutely appalled at the missing sliders, and for good reason. And using the mouse wheel to scroll is a great addition - for artists that draw un-intuitively with a mouse, but what about the pile of artists that use tablets???

C'mon, Adobe. Start sending your Beta's to high end artists for feedback and blatant faux pas's like this will never be made.

I'll stick with 5.5 til they fix this, thanks.

Yeah, I didn't like the removal of the sliders either. I think they were much better than the 10% steps.