Agreed. It should not be required to leave an editing mode to change or even adjust a view slightly. Especially now that Apple is pushing for the removal of the numpad entirely on their default keyboards we cant be depending on a user having one any longer either. Same issue with the middle mouse button, its really easy to use for some but on a trackpad or magic mouse middle clicking is generally to be avoided. I don't think that the addition of new view change systems need to throw out the