Why did Premiere break the H and W slider in the Graphic properties transform and allign tab?

Premiere has always lacked some really great functions the AE that just makes sense, like holding shift to uniformly scale a shape layer, either the height, width or just uniformly. Premiere added the H and W slider and it was great, scaling either axis uniformly without breaking the anchor points position, plus roundness is uniform and doesn’t warp, but recently I noticed the H and W sliders now scale from one side and in one direction,completely ignoring the visual anchor point with a hardcoded unseen anchor point that rests at the top left side of the shape completely taking away the uniform scaling that made it great.
 

In my opinion, it’s this little things that makes editing interesting, because now a simple uniform Height, means i have to tug at the shape little by little, re-allign it and keep tugging and subtly moving the shape until i get an even scale on both sides