P: Free Transform/Distort tool inconsistency

I've rolled back to version 19.1.
Hard to believe they make you pay for this.
My original dvd version CS6 was working fine. I opt for the new 2019 CC and it doesn't work!
Transform jumps all over the place when I try and use it. Shockingly bad.

15 years of muscle memory gone... Ive just started using 2019 and it seems a lot of things have been switched and swapped by default. I couldn't find the pivot in the free transform (its turned off by default...) Constraints on free transform now work in reverse. not sure i dig it.

this makes the transform work differently to illustrator and indesign.  So see that muscle memory?  GO F yourselves

I've used the .txt file fix and all is right again.  Now I don't have to guess what it's going to do every time I try to transform something.  It was slowing me down, had to revert back to the old, non-buggy way.  Thanks for the tip, Erik.

That makes two of us! You're not alone Erik!

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/transforming-objects.html#transform-scale-proportionally

First entry gives you back the old behaviour.

I have the feeling Adobe isn't aware of their core user base anymore. They just change what they think "feels" right not recognizing real professional people use this software for over a decade now. I honestly ask Adobe, who in the world requested this nonesense? Because I, as a semi-active community member, never saw any heated conversation about this?!... Until now.

Why make it worse.  I would like to go back to PScc2018 

They do application for themselves we can kindly pay for with no objection since that was not meant for 'some' users that constantly complain for the perfect vision of their buggy product 😉

Downgrading is more of a protest than a solution. I'm sure I could have found a fix for the issues within minutes and adjusted w/e shortcuts they changed, but I was just so annoyed with the change that I simply don't want to use their new update. Hopefully when they see that the new software isn't being used, they'll revert the changes or at least have them ON by default.

Generally when you roll out a massive update like this that messes with people's brains, you need to include a pop-up or a notice telling you how you can turn it on/off. Extremely unprofessional!

OK. It works. But it took me much time to find in the forum where to create this file as I haven’t used it before. And I will have to remember now to take this file with me to all computers I happen to work on and remember where to place it.

So my suggestion and great plea to Adobe is just to add the change of this option to Edit/Preferences menu.

I can understand the intention of Adobe to simplify operations that are probably used more often and will be easier for beginners. But this change is really horrible for old users (I am 70) who were used to certain keyboard shortcut combinations for decades not even thinking which key modifier controls which aspect of the operation, like e.g. Ctrl+Alt+Shift for perspective correction in Free Transform.