I think there may be some software differences as well.

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I thought that previously if Font8 was selected, the buttons to allow users to place symbols were disabled. From what I can tell now, the buttons to select symbols pages are enabled and if clicked, immediately change the font size to 10.
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Update: The above statement is incorrect please ignore. You can select the play or other symbols, but when you do, the font size changes to 10. This test was performed on 2.1.4 as well so, no changes to this functionality were made.