I’m sorry that the new creation workflow is adding some clicks for you. The tab order and what the tab key will do is difficult for us and we recognize that our recent change would negatively impact any power users (like yourself) who are used to using the Tab key to make a new answer choice.
We are working on getting full accessibility compliance for ADA and one of the things this requires is that the tab index (the order that clicking tab will take you) is logical and covers all controls. To help any of our users with disabilities we wanted to make sure they can delete answer choices, mark a correct answer, and upload images with our new poll creator. You can read more about web accessibility here if you’re interested: http://webaim.org/techniques/keyboard/
We are trying to come up with some ways to help speed the process for folks who just want to quickly get to the answer choices. One thing we did do is change the Enter or Return key. If you are typing an answer choice > you can click Enter > and it will move your cursor to the next answer choice OR create a new answer choice for you. It’s a change in habit, but that is our recommendation for now and hopefully that will help save you some time.
Otherwise, we are still investigating what we can do to help ease our full keyboard workflow. If you have any ideas or perhaps know something about accessibility for us, please let us know!