Color picker changes no longer preview?

I often choose the color for a selected object by manipulating the color in the picker while viewing the object to see the actual result before clicking OK on the color once it's right.
I just upgraded to CC from CS5, and this no longer seems to work - I have to make my best guess on the color based on the color picker swatch, and then approve it to see the results and then re-open the picker to try another shade. This is completely blowing up my workflow - sliding the cursor around in the picker lets me fine tune very carefully, and it might take many iterations through the pick/approve/preview cycle to get exactly the color I want, instead of one quick smooth trip to the picker. It's literally an order of magnitude or more time to do it this way.
Worse, because it takes so long, I find myself accepting colors that are "close enough" rather than go through a lot more iterations to really fine-tune it like I can in seconds in CS5.
I confess I haven't really searched the UI/prefs to turn this on since there's no Preview option checkbox in the color picker, which is where I would expect to find it. If there is a way to restore the color picker preview functionality, I will be grateful to learn how to do so.
Is this crimping anyone else's style as much as it is mine? I like CC a lot, but this one is a major step backward for me.

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