OT: What is CS6's equivalent to the "Donut"?

CS6 is out, the best roundup I've seen is at InDesign Secrets. It all looks great especially creating forms! BTW if you want to moan about the endnotes ommision I truly sympathise with you but start a new thread!
However just for fun my question is - what is the CS6 equivalent to the universally despised and never used Content Grabber tool, aka as the "Donut"?
My pick is it's the Content Collector and Placer Tools. I haven't used it, but just looking at it my first thought is why the heck can't you just use the standard selection tool? And why two tools? Perhaps it's different in actual practise. I don't know. But it sure looks awkward....

I've not tried InDesign CS6 yet but here's my take on some of the noted new features
Creating Interactive Forms
So what? You get a "Sample Library" you get some additions to the Buttons panel? Big whoop. I bet it doesn't work very well for complex forms.
Alternate Layouts
Sounds great, I'm not sure if the alternate layouts are dynamic (make one change in one layout and it happens in the other, or if content can be unlinked between documents, or if they're standalone documents residing in one document?) But it sounds promising.
Liquid Layout
An improvement to "Layout Adjustment" by the looks of it.
Content Collector/Content Placer tools
A fancy Copy and Paste - that a lot of people can't really see the point of this feature
On-object Link Status and Control
They added a node to the frame to let you know if a link isn't working - AMAZING
Primary Text Frame
Finally got the Master Text Frame working properly - and renamed it
Text Frames that Auto-Size
Something that a plugin developer did a while ago - it was good, looks like they've adapted it.
Flexible Columns
Great - it seems to be related to the Text Frame Auto size though.
Still can't have different WIDTHS for each column though!
Improved EPUB 2 Export, new EPUB 3 Export
To be expected - it wasn't great in CS5.5 and the new stuff for Epub 3 is a work in progress
Grayscale Preview and Grayscale PDF Export
Well about time - only took them about 10 years
Align to Key Object
Function taken from Illustrator - it's not a big deal - you could make a Key Object by locking an object before - don't see the difference here
The Little Things
User Interface tweaks - Wow! They used title case
Placeholder text language options - AMAZING can get that from the web - took a few seconds
Split Window- added another icon to split windows - why?
Complex Calculations in Dialog Boxes and Panels - WOW - a computer doing calculations
Digital Publishing workspace - they put a bunch of useless tools (probably the wrong set of tools into a workspace - you can do that yourself?)
Export to PNG (with transparency) - GREAT can't wait to see what pancake way it exports this - I'll probably still have to export to PDF and save as PDF from photoshop for better quality.
Extension Manager Sets - Eh?
Accurate screen sizing - seems like they fixed a bug
Keeps with Spans and Splits - Fixed another bug
Recent Fonts List - AMAZING
Save as IDML- Finally make it intuitive for new users!!!
PANTONE PLUS SERIES color swatch libraries - you can download and install those yourself ...
Name Ranges in XLSX files - Fixed another bug
Export to Interactive As Pages - Fixed the Spreads bug as always on!
Package files includes overlay assets - Surely this should have been already - looks like another Bug Fix.
Overall - I don't see "New Features" I see mostly Old Features Updated and dressed up - Plus a Lot of "Bug Fixes" since CS5.5
Will CS5.5 get thes fixes? OR even CS5? I doubt it.
Nothing really wowing me here.

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