Right now when modifying annotation, Pro provides a disconnected experience. To do some of the work, you use the Annotation edit tool, but to change some other settings, you have to go to the Attributes pane, which looks a lot like the existing Annotation Modify Features pane anyway and has duplicative controls in slightly different interfaces. It would make a lot more sense if these settings just lived on that Modify Features pane where there is nothing but blank space, it would serve as a true annotation pane with most if not all settings related to annotation -- more of the properties on the Attributes tab of the attributes pane would be nice to have exposed in the annotation interface (such as spacing and placed/unplaced). The tool/pane is likely going to be activated if you're already editing annotation, so why not just put the appropriate settings there? It's not much of an "annotation" tool if most of the settings are not only elsewhere but split between two tabs. I suppose I could see the argument for keeping the annotation settings in the attribute pane, but why not both places, then? It would be more streamlined and a lot less back and forth for the user regardless of their workflow.
