The Markup Extension in Preview

Is it just me or is the markup extension in the new Preview significantly worse than the markup tools in Mavericks' Preview? I use Preview a lot to annotate powerpoints in PDF format. So I will create text boxes and arrows and lines quickly in accordance with a lecture that accompanies the powerpoint. In Mavericks it was great, and there really was no way to do it faster than it was - you select text boxes, and then draw them where you want. You select lines, make it an arrow and then draw the arrows with a motion from point A to point B. And if you needed to draw a bunch of arrows, you could just draw them one after another. Same with text boxes.

Now, however, Preview uses the Markup extension (I think). Now when you want to draw a text box, you have to click the text box button, which puts a placeholder box in the center of the page. You can then start typing, and then you have to put the box where it should go. To type another one, you have to click the toolbar text box button again. Same with arrows, you click the button and it puts an arrow right in the center of the screen. Then you have to move it and resize it to fit where it is supposed to be.

How is this better than before? If you want to draw one text box, you now have to do a whole extra process of placing it where it should go. If you want to draw several separate boxes in succession, you have to click the text box button for each one rather than just draw them. That results in extra clicks and thus less efficiency.

It is even worse with arrows - rather than just drag from point A to point B to make your arrow (1 motion) now you have to drag the arrow point to the right spot (2 motions, one from toolbar to arrow point, and then from point to desired location) and the arrow back to the right spot (another 2 motions, one from the desired point location to the default arrow back, then drag to the desired location of your arrow's back). That's at least 4-5 extra motions, and 3 extra clicks, PER arrow. When efficiency matters, such as anyone using this for a job or for taking notes to a live lecture, this is going to make it that much more difficult. To top it off, I can't think of any advantage to this method. It doesn't look nicer, it doesn't help at all. It was fine the way it was, and now it is quantitatively, objectively worse. Is there any way to adjust how the markup extension works? I'm assuming it is going to be equally as bad in Mail or anywhere else you can use the markup extension.

Thank you for your time.

Edit: some typos