0.47.0A backwards wire keeps the lane. There is no straight line from a pin to something behind it that does not cross its own node, so angular borrows Rigid's route out and back, with its corners cut — which is the one place the old shape earns its keep.
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0.47.0The Angular wire style draws what its name says: out of the pin level, one straight run to the other end, in level. It has been drawing a right angle with its corners cut since it shipped, which is a different shape and not the one anybody picked it for.