yeah it's a step in the wrong direction for me, I would have linked to see them take it further. I can see with their new harmonic stuff, that they would be able to track the volume and hamonic changes and send that stufff too. Making it possible to play a wind instrument such as a sax, convert it, and have the midi play something like Samplemodelling wind or brass controlling pitchbend and expression, so that no further editing would be involved. Then changing the changing just the notes played in PRV to play harmonies to the original recording.
I never used Studio 2, so I don't know how successful pitch bend was, but if it was working, I can't fathom why you'd remove the function. Should have been enhanced IMO.