Please change text highlight behavior

The highlight behavior was changed from InDesign CS6 to InDesign CC wherein it previously "inverted" the text and background. So if the text was black on white, it became white on black. Further, what was behind the text was treated the same way. So if there was black text on top of a blue image, the text became white while the image became orange.
This behavior worked and accounted for ANY combination of text and background.
The new behavior is that the text is highlighted using your operating systems highlight color. The default color for OS X is a light blue.
Thus if you have light grey or light blue text, it disappears into the highlight block. Even white text, which is very common in magazine and brochure design, becomes extremely hard to read.
But the larger problem is created when working on a background. Whereas the background was previously inverted, it is now entirely covered. You can't see it anymore.
I constantly have to do designs based on previous versions/designs. In some cases, a design was created in illustrator or photoshop and I have to recreate it in InDesign. This used to be pretty simple. I'd pull the old design in as a placed object, set it's opacity to 50% and put it on a locked layer. Then I'd rebuild it in InDesign. But with the text highlight behavior, this becomes virtually impossible. As soon as you select the text that you need to adjust to match the background, the background itself becomes invisible—covered up by a light blue highlight.
I've included two images here to demonstrate the problem created by the new behavior.
So my feature request is simple: Revert the text highlight behavior.

I can't agreee more! We just updated all of our Production Macs to CC here and do much of the same work to client files when all we have is a reference PDF. We have to be able to re-set type to match exactly their previous designs and not being able to see that underlying PDF is a horrible drawback. There must be a way to make that highlight color transparent, even if it's a Preference to be changed.
I will say the only passable way I've found so far, and it's far from ideal, is to place the original PDF, make sure Transaprent Background is selected and put it on a Layer above the new text items. Some caveats are, if there's anything in that PDF that obscures the new text frames it can be problematic, and you have to Lock that PDF layer or selecting items can be infuriating as well. NOT a solution, just a workaround at best.

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