Glad it's not just me, but also, is kinda disappointing it isn't just something I'm missing.
You can still link to the parameters of objects with ifc, they've just gone to great lengths to hide it. Not in front of a computer at the moment but I found it today. If you goto file>thinger>ifc>translator setup. Then there's an option to map ifc from properties or something, then there's one more button after that I think to get you to what used to be the ifc scheme settings.
It's like they are purposely doing this sorta stuff.
I feel like using properties to control everything would be the way to go, but I'm hesitant to run my library parts from that sort of interface, sometimes you need the ui and the gdl (I struggle to use this next term) logic. But they seem to be at the top of the tree, can be applied to most elements, are schedulable, find and selectable, and graphically overridable as well.
Just a bit over the, this works except for this element, or in this instance, or if you would also like it to display for this thing...
There has got to be a way that it's all happy and nice.
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