In theory this is dangerous, because a pure Newton method will
only converge locally.  However, the trust-region part had been
partially disabled anyway, and I have not noticed any problems.
Also, I think that from my well-posedness result for higher-order
GeoFEs follows that a Newton method will always converge if the
problem is well-posed (that is how the proof works, after all).

On the plus side, this patch brings roughly 5% speed increas.