P: Doesn't constrain proportions when resizing from side handle while holding Shift key

This is absolutely maddening - can you please stop randomly changing things!

Believe it or not, some us have actual jobs to do, and this constant and seemingly arbitrary messing around with the interface (in Illustrator too) just gets in the way...

It has been like this with positive vs negative rotation values for many years. I still can't remember which programs do it which way. And I always guess wrong. Absolutely ridiculous.

OMG is this really happening? I googled this question and landed here. So after decades of doing things one way, you've changed it to be the exact opposite — but not for the entire suite, just one of the programs. So now I have to be aware of which program I'm in so I can remember if I need to do it one way or the opposite way? Unbelievable. These kind of inane changes happen with every update, and my speed and productivity go down every time. Truly you guys are the worst. 

I was thinking that as well, none of this makes any sense.

What’s strange are the responses from Adobe, it’s totally fine to say we messed up, or we should’ve made all tools consistent, or this is part of a wider plan but it was released earlier etc - something that sounds like the truth at least.

Some people aren’t aware of the change and I’ve found past work from others that’s slightly distorted - when you’ve been doing this for years, you actually drag out quite accurately so I wonder how many other people are clueless about this?

This is a dubious explanation, for when re-sizing any application window in Mac OS or Windows, the proportions are not locked. On Mac, you must hold shift to size proportionally - as was the past photoshop transformation behavior, and the default in all other Adobe apps. What operating system is Adobe using? Does Metal work properly on that one? 

This is increasingly looking like a bug, being advertised as a feature.

Hannah, there should be an option to revert to legacy transform for us professional users. Does Adobe have any interest in supporting the professionals who use this everyday?

Exactly... Adobe really needs to consult with the professionals who use the software every day before they do ridiculous things
 like this.

I'm yet to meet anyone in a professional setting who thinks this with regard to tools - including interns.

But if it's true, and it's the reason for changing scale tools, do it properly! Changing one tool out of 100s across CC - really? 

The inconsistency and defence is so embarrassing. It's such low-quality thinking and execution. #face-palm

Hi Michael,

Sorry I missed your question earlier. The reasoning behind the change was that today when people grab a window corner to resize it they expect it to resize proportionally.

Thanks,
Hannah

Please advise... how the hell can we scale proportionally now.  The shift key and all the other permutations do not do a thing! Why did you break this???