Okay, just, look at this screenshot. Look at it. Contemplate it for a moment. Ask yourself if this feels like the right thing to do.

The type itself is at about 45º to the edges of the artboard; I've rotated the canvas to roughly align with the type so I can have a better view of it while I think about how to properly deploy Bookmania's glorious OpenType alternate forms.

I really wasn't expecting the Touch Type tool's popup to match the alignment of the canvas' edges but in retrospect I'm not surprised. NOTHING drawn in the preview window aligns with the screen instead of the canvas, no matter how much more sense it would make for it to do this. Everything that drags out an area does it in the canvas' coordinates instead of the screen and it's so annoying. I really wish Adobe would assign an intern to look for rough UI edges around canvas rotation for an entire product cycle and FINISH this furshlugginer feature, as usual it was delivered, had maybe one extra release to fix any glaring crashes it created, and then just totally forgotten.

Honestly it might actually be pretty cool if the Touch Type character popup was aligned with the rotation of the currently chosen letter, since it can clearly be rendered at an angle.