Being able to straight lines is convenient, and this course takes advantage of that feature. Given 4.4 has a regression and does not have the Alt-drag to draw straight lines feature and (based on the RC of 4.5 and alpha of 5.0) it appears the feature is not making a comeback anytime soon, have you a clever alternative in your workflows?
Speaking of clever, temporarily popping out property panels to do the side-by-side work was nice! Sometimes going back to regular professional programs after being immersed in Blender can be disappointing from a UI POV, like working in a small box.
Yes! Here are the details, we have more options in 4.4
In 4.2 you select 2 points to join and use use CTRL-J (Join) to make 2 strokes into 1 stroke. Simple!
In 4.4 to have the same effect you need to select ALL points in BOTH strokes and then use CTRL-J.
If you select 2 points as you might in 4.2, the result is those 2 points are joined and DISCONNECTED from the other strokes, now have 3 strokes!
If you select 2 points and use CTRL-SHIFT-J (Join and Copy), you have 3 strokes that look like 1! The selected points were COPIED and a new stroke was created with them.
I really miss the 4.2 method TBH. But I think it's got to do with re-writing bits of the code to define what a stroke is, so as far as cleaning up work goes, it's a bit of an extra step - or steps, if you have to flip the stroke direction to ge this to work right. I'm not entirely sure and I don't understand all the stuff going on under the hood haha.