Is the gradient color selection workflow fixed in CS6?

http://www.bittbox.com/illustrator/illustrator-quick-tip-faster-gradient-color-adjustments
Double clicking the color in the toolbox panel to bring up the color picker, resets the angle of the gradient. The only way to use the color picker for a gradient color is to preselect it and place it in the color swatch. This is a blatantly incorrect implementation of a common workflow. Has this been fixed in CS6?

Okay.....
The color panel is essentially useless. Adjusting color based on RGB values is incredibly difficult/retarded.
Possibly, of course there's a color ramp at the bottom of the Panel as well.
The number of colors available for a particular hue are very limited. There is no reasonable way to change the saturation of a color.
Really? Again show me a single color you can not achieve via the color panel which the color picker can.
As for saturation... I guess setting the panel to HSB (Hue/Saturation/Brightness) wouldn't qualify?
Because of it, there is essentially no way to select from a wide range of colors and be able to live preview the color for a gradient, a standard way of doing things in Photoshop and every other graphics software.
Hmmm... again... the color ramp means nothing? You can't move sliders? You've not tried Live Color/Recolor Artwork at all???
Why not just outright state that you aren't comfortable with Illustrator and want it to conform to things you are comfortable with rather than learning to use Illustrator.
The entire "every other graphics software" section is completely incorrect. Painter doesn't use the color picker the same way any Adobe app does. In fact, once you venture away from Adobe you find many graphics apps approach color selection in many different ways. And even within Adobe software.. explain Fireworks color selection....  Indesign color selection... After Effects color selection.... Even merely looking at Adobe products alone your statement falls apart. You just want it to "be like Photoshop."
Look, I totally "get" that some people prefer the way Photoshop works. And I understand that they may want everything to operate exactly like Photoshop does if for no other reason so they can seamlessly move from app to app with as little a learning curve as possible. The reality is, Illustrator is NOT Photoshop. You can complain until you are blue in the face, that's not going to change the app. Adapt or fail.

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