The new balance changes are *really nice*. I'd go into more detail but as this is for Bug Reports I'll stick to that.
The Stage 2 PUS RUB *does not grant points when moving your hand upwards* but it still raises awareness. At some point moving your hand upwards starts gaining points again (I'm going to guess once you get PUS SPREAD but I was caught before I could confirm).
I'm unsure if this was intentional, but it does introduce an interesting game-feel difference that I'll go more into in a separate thread.