That’s a real shame. I love the Box Edit panel. I actually have it open all the time and don’t think of it as an “Edit” panel. To me it should just be part of the properties panel of an object.
Align bottom indeed works okay, but I just noticed a bug: I have many objects in the scene; curves, surfaces and text objects. I select everything in the front view and select Align and then bottom. I noticed the text objects didn’t move and it appears that text objects don’t get selected in side view. In perspective and top view I can select them, but in the side view they don’t get selected. 99% sure that is a bug and not a feature, although with Rhino there is always some residual chance something weird is actually intended behavior.
Since we don’t have an Object Manager and selecting in the viewport is the only way, I feel like at least selecting stuff in the viewport should be flawless 
This is in Rhino 8.6.24101.5001