It´s great that now the cursor has orientation options, but with that we need UI to control it, and we also need options to align object origin to cursor taking into account orientation (or ignoring it, it should be an option)
So far we have no options to control the cursor, and it´s a pity since it´s a pretty neat feature to have, the cursor is one of the less understood and one of the best features of Blender, it should not be hidden because new users don´t understand it 
Cheers!