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I have a different perspective on all of this. Typographic improvements (as enumerated by KDP Technical Services) are long overdue, as these features (or lack of bugs in the case of the drop caps and line spacing) have existed on competing platforms for years now.
Of course, they need to document how to selectively turn off hyphenation (in headings and so forth), and it would be nice if that were also a user preference, but I'm weary of seeing crappy drop caps and irregularly spaced lines, and miss hyphenation. It shouldn't be up to publishers to blindly discover how to develop workarounds for the current limitations of Kindle reading apps, when the same HTML/CSS looks great in iBooks or the average RMSDK/Readium reading app. At any rate publishers by and large have proven they are not interested in doing any of that. It's time for Amazon to do something.
I can appreciate that the changes they are (more or less secretly) making have people tearing their hair out here but I think it will be for the better in the end.
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