...although I'm not sure I'm happy about being called an "old timer" Seriously though, when it first was released, I resisted, but after forcing myself to use it I wouldn't go back.
Updo^H^H^H^H
Fondu
Undo! Yes, that's it!
I still remember the fuss some members of the LV user community made over LV developers "wasting their time" implementing undo...
I'm not an auto-tool fan either. It wires when I want to select and you have to select breakpoints and colour chooser anyway.... drives me mad. I'm a Tab and space-bar freak.
I had the same weird thing with the dialog disappearing - my solution was to throw together this little VI to recursively set the property on all VIs in a folder - it's a little quick and dirty but does the trick
Mark as Source Only.vi