Not only do I agree, but I've already implemented this and it is in v3.5.2. Are you two using that?
It is opt-in, though, so perhaps you haven't enabled it.
If you look in the screenshot below, you can see the align star circled (it's currently just starting, on the yellow/purple vertex of the triangle).
To enable that feature, "Update PA Error" must be checked. Then, once you click "Refresh", the star will be circled.
The reason it's an option instead of always on, is that in order for the system to be able to find the star, I needed to implement a guiding algorithm (I actually used a lot of the internals of SEP MultiStar), which involves star-detection, and all that takes compute time, especially when refreshing the image every second on a full-sized image. Therefore, on machines like Raspberry Pi4s or slower, I recommend binning when polar aligning at least 2x if not 3x3 to speed things up. In my experience that does not degrade polar alignment performance, and makes the refresh cycle much faster.
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