bitflipper
I also miss the little grab handle at the top of the event. That was useful when tweaking a hand-drawn pitch envelope, which I use a lot for faux guitar bends and slides. The current method makes precise horizontal movement clumsy, e.g. placing a zero value immediately before the next note when inserting a note-to-note slide.
Again, maybe I don't understand the exact problem but if you use the Move tool to click on the top of an event where a handle would be, you can move up/down/left/right. For left/right it can snap to the current MIDI snap value, but you can place it anywhere if you don't want it to snap.