Connecting Bridge to tools like Photoshop is hard

It's still very difficult to let Adobe Bridge run e.g. the Image Processor or PhotoMerge in the current 'normal' version of Photoshop – not an older (earlier installed) or newer (public beta). Assigning extensions doesn't work, setting the Applications preference doesn't help either, and tweaking the startup scripts easily becomes a mess.

Since the use of Public Betas is being stimulated more than ever (due to the many AI improvements), keeping or getting control again over Bridge's application connections is clumsy. Please come up with a sensible and useful solution for this.

BTW: I'm on a Mac.