That makes a lot of sense. Even though that takes out the fluid Jump Attack movement, I guess it feels more like you're doing the attack instead of just Z-targeting and then pushing A. Pushing the control stick forward and pressing A now acts like a forward jump (like how Link can already jump...
He can slightly wall-jump to boost himself onto ledges, but that's about it. But I don't get why everyone is making such a big deal about this... The "Jump Attack" and "Jump Slash" both have "jump" in their names... Not to mention that he always side-jumps in the console titles... Obviously Link...