Now that I write it out it looks like a hilariously small issue to have, but in-game my muscle memory is regularly called upon and when it encounters this sort of issue it stops me to clarify wtf I should be pressing. Perhaps I'm the only one with this problem.
Yes/No.
The trouble being that while it might take a little longer to work out that the whole issue of relates to what (the inconsistency of the up-down staircase across sub-dialogues also cross-pollinates with the inconsistency of the floodgate across different sub-dialogues, etc etc), muscle memory is marvellously capable thing.
Have you ever tried to control a digger jib (body rotate, shoulder angle, elbow angle, wrist angle and bucket scoop) with two joysticks, one per hand, both operating two motions by their respective X/Ys, or however this particular model is set up)? It takes getting used to (especially when there are differences), with one joy-left/right being rotate byut the other joy left/right being scoop/unscoop, and then there's the foot controls, but after a while the whole vehicle is an extension. Until you move to another
And though I can't be sure (I took a short break from DF, arising from hardware migration issues), I'm
fairly sure that the carved fortifications has changed. My fingers still want to do (d)esignate c(a)rved, I'm sure, but now it seems to be (d)esignate (F)ortification.
(Which at least is now more consistent with (b)uild (C)onstruction (F)ortification.) It seems to have been changed to allow (a) to multi-toggle the all-or-gem/ore-or-gem behaviour (although I've yet to work out the mnemonic behind this, so it was probably applied
after the decision to standardise Fortification carving towards 'F'.)
Anyway, I find it awkward. Not that I (d)(F) that much, which is perhaps why I've not had enough practice to change my own unconscious muscle-memory.
Not that I wouldn't mind more cross-menu consistency, but it would play havoc on my playing spontaneity for a while. Consider it similar to the Qwerty/Dvorak transition argument, for typists. (Well, except for the "Qwerty deliberately slows you down" thing, which is just plain wrong.)