Just noticed this yesterday while driving in the rain. Drove about 600 miles yesterday and today, most of it in the rain, and it’s definitely a pain to have to manually turn on the lights each time you start out. That’s assuming that you remember that you now need to turn them on manually. And then the car bugs you to turn them off when you park and exit the car! This definitely needs to be a setting in one of the menus.
Also it would have been nice to have been informed of this change. When I first noticed it I assumed that it just wasn’t working correctly, or possibly that the most recent update made it an option. Wasted some time re-booting and searching through the menus for a non-existent setting.