5.1 multitrack template - new and 'improved' or worse?

I've not been happy with the 5.1 Multitrack template in the latest update of Audition versus the previous version. I'm not sure if it's because something needs to be done differently in either mindset or settings, or if the changes just are detrimental overall and I should just go back to the old template.

One thing is that  the new template doesn't automatically create a Track Panner setup and I have to do it all manually for each track. And when doing so, I've noticed a change - in the old template, if one looks at the Track Panner window, you would see a single line or spoke going from the center to wherever you chose (C, L, R, etc).  In the new template, you get a 'stereo' cone that has the L, C, R, etc as the center but a stereo spread of 30 degrees (so center is going from L to R with C as the center 'point'). And when bounced to Premiere Pro, the tracks are bounced as stereo channels not Mono.

When exporting a multichannel Dolby track for DVD or Bluray using these newer stereo tracks it just sounds...weaker and muddier than doing it the old way. So I'm not sure if there's something I need to be considering to optimize things with the new format, or just open the old template and use that.