UML14 — Binary associations decorated with large diamonds legal?

The current Superstructure document states that "Any association may
be
drawn as a diamond ...". This changes the behavior present in UML 1.x
significantly which only allowed the diamond for n-ary (n>2)
associations.

As a consequence of this change a UML diagram may look more like an
Entity-Relationship model with some changes (placement of the
association's name, multiplicity notation, and all the semantics)
than a
upward compatible UML digram.

Is this intended?

I tend to retain UML's former behavor to allow the large diamond only
for n-ary associations.

Any ideas or am I just misreading the spec?

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