IOS 8.0.2 broke the personal hotspot feature

I have an unlocked iPhone 5S purchased from Apple direct at full price. The hotspot feature always worked on iOS 7.x. I recently "upgraded" (read downgraded) to iOS 8.0.2 and my personal hotspot feature has simply disappeared. It does not appear where it is supposed to be. It is not there at -> Settings "Perosnal Hotspot" and it is also not there under -> Settings -> Cellular or -> Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Network
(As shown here it simply does NOT appear at all: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/09/23/how-to-use-the-ios-8-hotspot/)
Some have suggested that "maybe a carrier update did this". It's alarming to think that a "carrier" could "update" my phone to remove vital features when I have an unlocked phone purchased outright at full price from Apple and I am using it with a no contract SIM. How this carrier could be allowed to damage my phone by disabling features is beyond me but even so I know this isn't the case because:
1) Others with the same carrier still have the feature.
2) By screwing around with network settings reset, and Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Network -> Reset Settings sometimes I get it to reappear especially after i enter some garbage data at Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Network: PERSONAL HOTSPOT "APN" "Username" and "Password" and then doing another Settings -> Cellular -> Cellular Network -> Reset Settings. It appears on the screen Settings -> Cellular -> Personal Hotspot and it's disabled. But when I turn it on it disappears again.
Another horrific iOS 8.0.x bug...

I have also Iphone 5 , also also updated on IOS 8.0.2 few days ago but yesterday i also have this same problem of broken personal hotspot when i was needed, so i seached and seen you post but for me it is benificial that i tried and now fixed the problem, i know this is a bug of IOS 8 but what to do now let's see in future when apple fix it.i did same process like you ....settings....cellular,,,,,cellular data network and in the personal hotspot APN username and password submitted any thing then i return to main then i did reset settings in the cellular data network. i think it is not neccessary to do this reset.
i found personal hotspot in the...... cellular ...and then i switch off and on it was working and then i return back to.... settings....and hotspot was there like before and its functioning like in IOS 7.
Thanks a lot

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