is there a work around for labels on 2d maps in 4.3

[TimDonovan]

I see that the Label class has a known limitation of not supporting 2d lables but is there a work around?  Is this going to be supported in the future?  If you want people to use the new api in the future I would think this is a fairly common complaint.    For various reasons we can't really use the 3.2 api.  

Thoughts?

[ThomasSolow]

You can use text symbols as a workaround, but I agree this is a pretty significant shortcoming.