Personally I find the perceived changes to auto follow to be complete suckage. Now while on auto follow I cannot use my turn keys to move the follower in a small, smooth circle around the leader. Instead they just spin on the spot. If I use the strafe keys, the follower toon has to move in a wide orbit around the leader just to make a minor position change.

Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what are you doing to adjust to it?

Regarding the initial post about the extra hotkey bindings, have you had any luck getting them to bind and work? I wasn't able to get them working :S