@Sallie Goetsch (@salliegoetsch) - It was never obvious how the link post format was supposed to work in 3.3-3.5, and having the title disappear in some post formats was a surprise, since it showed up in the editor. The new UI in 3.6 made things more consistent between the editor and the published post. My students were looking forward to it; ditto the members of the East Bay WordPress group, who saw the demo.

I too found this to be not only confusing, but frustrating. When I would select a Post Format, I would then preview the post and instead of previewing the post on how it would look with the format applied, I got to see the singlepage.php version of the post which looks the same no matter which format is applied. So it was impossible to preview how a post would look. It was frustrating because if I wanted to use the Quote or Link formats, I would need to browse the archive on my site to remind myself on how the post would look like.

If somehow, as you said the editor and post previews could be consistent in terms of how the post will look like when published, I think I would have used them more and I bet a lot of other people wouldn't be so afraid to use them because they would know what the post will look like.

I hope that somewhat made sense.