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In 0.16 only the recipe was copied with Copy Entity Settings (shift+RMB), in 0.17 assembler rotation is copied as well.
Nasty if you don't realize that you just connected the output pipes to the input pipes of a Chemical Plant.

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This may be new feature, as Rseding said "copy-pasting" should not copy direction, and then Dominik extended fix to not only copy rotations in blueprints, but also in hand recipe-copying (shift+rmb). Let ask developers: should it copy rotation (feature of blueprints) or should it keep old rotation when copying recipe with shift+rmb?

Moving to ideas and suggestions

The way it is now, this command does not seem to be very useful. The issue is that if I put down two rows of mirrored chemical plants and I set the recipe in one of them, I used to be able to copy the recipe to all the other plants.

Now, I have to manually open each mirrored plant and set the recipe or the mirrored plant will be rotated the wrong way.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Tutorial:Keyboard_shortcuts wrote:Manipulating entities

Copy entity settings (Shift + Right mouse button) and Paste entity settings (Shift + Left mouse button) allows you to copy settings between entities. Holding down the Paste entity settings keyboard binding while moving or dragging can paste to multiple entities with a single stroke. This works for:
- recipes for automated crafting machines (assembling machines, oil refineries, chemical plants and centrifuges)

For me: "settings" = recipe+rotation, in that sense this one is inconsistent with itself.

I think Shift+rmb should only copy recipe as this is tool for copying recipe (to assembler), requests for recipe (to request chests) while blueprint (and ctrl+c) is to copy layout (=rotation) and settings (=recipe).

Worst case if new player is faced with two tools that work similar but not same: use ctrl+c, changes rotation, use shift+lmb, keeps rotation. I think this is not an issue: "ctrl+c" is widely known (other apps) to copy selection as-is

The fact is that we had a useful feature in 0.16 (copy recipe), in 0.17 this cannot be used if the destination machine is rotated differently.
TLDR: there is now no method to reliably copy recipes from one machine to another.

If you're copying circuit conditions on inserters or belts, do you really want to copy rotations?
99% of the time I copy settings, I don't want rotations copied.

No, this was a recently introduced bug (by another fix).