Its something that you might find irritating for a bit, like when the menus changed over, took me a few weeks to get used to maya 8.5 from 6.

Having one little option as the only reason you use maya seems a bit far fetched, just work round it you'll get used to it in no time.

Ive been using the smooth preview and slide edge tools as im making a head at the moment, really good tools, aswell as the edge selection hotkeys, although they might have been in 8.5.