I would love a way to go back to the old versions of TestComplete where that object recognition hint stuff wasn't present. I have never seen this be helpful; it's only caused problems for us when...
Sounds like, instead of a feature request, you found a bug. Have you reported it as such via https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete ? I agree, if something is not working properly, it needs fixed... but that's not a new feature, that's a bug that needs corrected. The link to support is the best method to get a resolution to that sort of issue.