In all previous versions, it was possible to select a TEXT FRAME (one or more) and apply any text formatting to the text in it.

This has been removed in CC2019. With a text frame selected, the text functions in the control panel and in text related palettes -- Character, Paragraph -- are disabled. The functions in the Character and Paragraph Styles panels are NOT disabled but they don't "work".

Expected result: how it worked in the 13 versions that preceded this one.