Agree there's definitely some quirks with building and making things not via work orders. Even for queuing up a couple of copper greaves at a metalworker's shop (because my king is obsessed with demanding their creation and banning their export), I opt for work orders rather than going through and selecting armor -> copper -> greaves twice.
Or when 20 something dwarves plummet into lave in a tragic mining accident and you need to engrave all the slabs? awful. On the whole, the UI stuff is a significant improvement, though.
