Just so you know, there was always 4 options for the joints (hold relax contract extend), you just had an issue where the game for some reason could only contract and extend joints, which was a bug that people didn't like and had to reinstall the game because of.

Do not say that 4.8 sucks just because you didn't notice something existed in the game for a long time and you did not notice it because you only just fixed it ;o