Contributor View Access to projects, documents and reports

The beginning of the month my team upgraded to the new Workfront licensing and it has been a small nightmare fixing project, document and report access for all my contributors.  Why have settings in templates, reports and elsewhere that set view rights when you still have to go into each object and set the permissions manually per contributor?  This is creating a tremendous amount of extra work for myself and my team.  Was this change, made for what must be monetary gains only, worth it at the expense of all the aggravation you are causing your users?