In 2.8, they changed the timeline where primary clicking and dragging on a timeline no longer scrubs through the frames but instead is a box select. The change I am referring to can be found here . The only way to scrub is to drag the mouse on the small bar at the top that holds the frames. This change does not really make sense (you can not select anything in the timeline to begin with except markers) and slows down the animation process. After looking for a while I can not find any option to return back to how it was originally.
Within the change it was suggested that scrubbing could be changed to a hotkey, so you hold spacebar and then scrubbing works like how it originally was. This could be an option but it was not followed up on.
How can I make the timeline scrubbing easier without having to move my mouse every time to the frames bar? How can we have click and dragging anywhere scrubs like how it was prior to 2.8?