Yes, I know what you're talking about! I'm having difficulty with this as well, especially with the lag on comment-heavy posts. When I have a long comment thread, it was nice to have it direct me back into the thread where I was. Comparing the links from now to before, I've noticed it appends this after the entry link as of right now:

?view=(######)&posted=1#cmt(######)

Compared to what it used to do, which was to add this after the entry link:

?thread=(######)&posted=1#cmt(######)

(Amount of numbers variable, obviously.) I vastly prefer what it used to do, not only to avoid lag on posts with many comments, but because in long comment threads it used to allow me to immediately see/review my posted comment instead of seeing the entire thread in a collapsed view. I hope this can be reverted!