What is new/special about Family Photo Stream in iOS 8?

When it was announced at WWDC, I was hoping Family Photo Stream would automatically upload all photos from all of my family's devices into one photo stream that would then synchronize across all the other devices, including iPhoto 2013 on my iMac.
But it seems each family member has to manually add photos to the Family Photo Stream.
In iOS 7, it was already possible to create a shared photo stream, add your family members, and enable them to post to it.
So what, if anything, does iOS 8's Family Photo Stream do that is different?

Yes, as far as I can tell, after enabling Family Sharing and my wife and I now having different iCloud accounts on our phones, Photo Stream does not appear to be shared between us any more. It appears that only the "Family Photos" album is shared, and we have to manually add photos and videos to that.
One of my favourite features of sharing the same iCloud account across multiple devices was that Photostream synced all our family's photos across all devices, no matter who took them. This appears to be a missing feature in Family Sharing for now -- perhaps Apple wasn't aware this was something people were doing?

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