Yeah and it makes combat flow much faster than when you had to be searching your hotbar for stupid toggles and pressing them on and off all the time. I think among this change and Swarm AI Larian did great job at speeding up combat.
I played EA before either of these were added, so I am excited to give them a go! That was one of my biggest worries when initially playing. I was like... this game is great in a lot of ways, I even think the combat is pretty engaging... but it is so slow, like way slower than DOS2... and it is going to be hard to trudge through 100+ hours of this.