Surface pen no longer able to highlight the article

With all due respect please read the question in the title, and the description of the problem I have written above.

It's obvious to me that if there has been a change in the way the pen reacts with text, changing from simply gliding over the text to select it, to having to tap on a word then select the text required by moving the "handles" at the start and end of the selected word, then that's a change in the way it has been programmed to work, not a problem with the driver. 

Trying to update the driver to solve a problem that is not driver related is completely futile. I can work that out and I'm not a Microsoft expert.

As I said, you can no longer select a body of text just by gliding your pen over it as highlighted in blue (see screenshot below) and I wanted to know if there is a setting somewhere that will revert it to how it used to work.  

Thank you for getting back to us. Drivers run differently with different operating systems. That is why we recommended you perform the previous suggestion. You may find it easier to take the devices to a Microsoft Store for further tests. They'll be able to reproduce the problem and determine if your Pen will work differently on another Surface, or if the same problem will occur with a different Pen. Open this link to locate the nearest Microsoft Store.

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Erwin Nga, did you look at the Feedback Hub before you posted that comment?  This issue has been documented in the pre-release Insiders Preview version since it first appeared in the beta builds in July. There are dozens of bug reports about how the new pen behavior breaks so much other functionality. Please do a search in the Feedback Hub and you'll see. 

Also, here's another thread about how the Fall Creators Update has broken so much of the pen functionality in many other programs.