I'm curious why the WYSIWYG editor was downsized in version 5.3?

We had so many other choices in 5.2, for example, setting up a table, insert date, insert custom character... all these extras were used quite frequently on one of my clients sites and since I upgraded they're a bit annoyed.

For myself, I can just edit the code but for someone who doesn't know HTML, they feel limited.

Note: Maybe you didn't change it and I'm just missing something on my end :) Please confirm.

Suzy