The behaviour you describe was a Mac/Win difference I mentioned here.
Disappointing to hear that they’ve implemented the Mac behaviour on Windows since what zoom level a user wants to crop at is entirely down to user preference. I hate this auto-zoom, and no other tool that I can think of is coupled to the zoom level in this way.
Every time they change something like this with no option to retain the old behaviour they just make a new group of people unhappy.