Ripple trim shortcuts Q and W always trim a few frames ahead of playhead - how can I stop this?

This is driving me insane. I like to trim clips at the playhead using Q and W (Ripple Trim Next/Previous Edit to Playhead) and this normally works fine in Premiere but I've noticed in recent versions that it always trims a few frames off from the playhead. I've found a thread regarding this here: Re: Trim Tool Cuts at Wrong Point  and the official Adobe answer says this is by design which I personally think is a horrible reason because this worked perfectly fine before, and this is drastically slowing down my workflow for no valid reason whatsoever. Is there any way to disable this moronic "feature"? I found a trim offset setting in preferences but you're unable to change it to zero, it won't accept it. One special person at Adobe might like it this way, but forcing all of us to follow suit is extremely aggravating.

If anyone has found a workaround please help!