There is a lot of history around this change. Over a year ago we changed our editor from telerik to tinymce. When we did this, the enter key did what many other editing applications do, which is use a <P> tag. Some users complained and wanted just a <br> so we changed it to <br>. However, this meant the <UL>s didn't work (at all really) since applying lists to <br> isn't how things work, they have to be <P>s. Since then we have gotten a lot of complaints about basic editor functionality (<UL>)s simply not working. People want to use these, but can't.
So we changed the return to be a <P> by default, Users that really don't like that can simply SHIFT-ENTER to get a non default <P>.
Now, if we are hosing code or breaking other functional areas, that is no good and I'll look into that. But for users that really NEED a <BR> for style or preferrence reasons, can simply use the SHIFT solution.
In the future we'll continue to look into this.
If you have additional input, feel free to post back.
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