Comment 8 for bug 246471

Completely agree.

Blender implemented this years ago during the migration to 2.5x lineage. It's a wise move.

The precision afforded by a slider is simply not granular enough alone.

And regarding the "Opinion" status, it would seem that one could make a case for 99.5% of all design considerations as "Opinion".

Yes it's an opinion, but one offered up from the side of the coin that actually tries to create work in Inkscape. I'm quite certain that had the user base been significantly larger and composed primarily of folks that leverage certain tools and workflow styles, that this would be a much larger issue.