I agree, this was a great feature in ArcMap that should be added back in Pro. The main benefit, as I see it, was that the attributes dialog box opened automatically with the cursor already in the first field. The cursor being in the field was key. This meant there was no need for any clicking back and forth between features on the map and fields to type into. If you needed to add a number of points with a simple ID or label on each, the workflow was simple: Click the map to add the point, type, Enter, click next point point, type, Enter... Very fast, with no need to click around in tables at all. The alternatives all require some version of adding a point, then clicking into the table to enter attributes, then typing, then returning to the map. It sounds minor, but it not only saved clicks to do it the old way, it also saved you from having to look around the screen and mouse back and forth between different panes; you could literally never take your eyes off the map, or move the mouse pointer from the part of the screen where your geographic features were. Nothing but click, type, click, type. Losing that functionality is a big hit to efficiency when you are adding a lot of points.
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