I just discovered this myself today. I had to reopen 2018 to make sure I hadn't missed something.

You know, all those of us who have been happily working the last couple of decades with North = -X never thought we needed to say anything to keep it. I wasn't even aware this was a controversial topic until 10 minutes ago.

I agree this needs to be a configuration setting. At least for now I can tell my folks to change it...every time...in the special execution parameters. It hard enough getting my folks to roll to a new version as it is.