What a write up, my wife and I watched the show last night from home and this reading makes me want to watch it again (she wanted to watch it this morning, I had to go to work...damn)!

I have two things to say:
1) Although J brought up the song> jam> another song> first song is like the "canon" of Phish brilliance (and I couldn't agree more), the smooth segues allow that happen, and they have been few and far between in this recent era (I try hard to not say 3.0). But the very first magic to my ears of this starting to happen again was at Alpharetta last summer (unfortunately the only 2 shows we saw all last year) first night in the Tweezer> Silent. It was just pure amazing, and people were talking all around us and I was like "shut up, something amazing is going to happen!!!" and it did: a fluid segue, something we hadn't heard at a show in years. (I'm sure there are others, I've heard some since 2009, but that was the first that felt 1990s-natural to me). I think the band has been slowly building this up since last summer, last night it was like all the "segue practicing" was finally over, or as the OP says, "that 3.0 tentativeness is gone."

2) Did last night finally destroy the "3.0" moniker so we can just go back to saying "Phish" again? OP almost hints at this...