New to 10.2: Promotion Request rights worse than previous versions?!!

According to my research and the below SPRs, it appears that the rights for users to promote files are worse than previous versions of Windchill. Has anyone seen this? PTC does not want to fix it in 10.2.

1. Users can promote checked out objects
2. Promotion Requests with checked out objects will hand in the OPEN state and not change to UNDER REVIEW
3. Objects UNDER REVIEW can be checked out

SPRs:

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS158224&source=Case%20Viewer

https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/spr.jsp?n=2892612&source=Case%20Viewer