The proximity comms panels now work in the third-person point of view. Is this a bug, or is it going away?

Well, yes, I got your sarcasm there. It's a bug. It is going away. So the idea is that obviously with that, what we'll be doing is making sure that you can turn it on or off in the options menu. So give them the choice.

Is that a 3.13 thing or something later?

I've called it out for 3.13, so yeah. Hopefully it gets done.