I'm the one who reported (CWBRN-13970) and was happy to see it fixed. (Got the email today) However in the process they've broken the playlist if you use the "pin on top" button. If that is selected, and your next song has a :"wait for keypress" delay on it, it most times won't play the next song instantly. It will jump around and get confused and wait for you to hit the spacebar AGAIN to get it to play. A real show stopper in a live situation. Also if the "pin on top" is not selected, it will work as expected, BUT . . . The now time scroller line will be invisible while the song is playing. So yes the "disappearing NOW time" still exists.
I submitted bug report
CWBRN-20634 prior to X3c's release but it didn't make it. I sure hope it makes it into X3d. It's unusable for me the way it is.