Spacebar chopping/mining slower than Mouse-click chopping/mining

I didn't know about the mouse making chopping, etc. faster after the update, and I've been playing DST for years, and I read the update notes, but didn't understand them. "All actions can be repeated by clicking and holding the action button" sounded like it was describing the normal behavior of the game, and I always use the space bar, so I didn't notice anything new.

I don't know if there's a reason the space bar can't do what the mouse does, but I'm grateful I happened to read this and learn about the new mouse click chopping, etc. being faster. So, even if nothing gets changed, thank you for putting this information where at least one person could learn it.