Publish a library enabled all the time

In the pre-update version Publish Library was always enabled. This way if Publish did not detect any changes I could open it, click “Update all pages”. This would trigger it to detect changes.
With the new version enabling/disabling is not working. If I make changes to the library, publish the changes, there is a 50% chance of the Publish ‘blue dot’ showing up and Publish menu item becoming enabled in a file. If I switch pages then sometimes it forces the changes to be detected.
Why not keep publish enabled all the time. at least that was a sort of workaround that I could live with. This new behavior is harder to live with.
Would be nice to have a keyboard shortcut for publish - I publish many times a day to many files.