P: New user interface lacks contrast and many usability cues, lots of other problems

Skeuomorphism... Thanks Richard.

hehe, maybe anti-Skeuomorphic would have been a better description, the anti-Skeuomorphic bandwagon started by Microsoft with their bland lifeless UI.
Like herbert says,  I hope it's a fad that dies a painful death.

Sorry, please illuminate the point of complaining about other company's software on an Adobe forum.  If anything, providing evidence that other software companies are also "flattening" their UI only serves to strengthen Adobe's position that they are on trend.  How that helps us get what we want in this particular discussion is a mystery to me.  

Rob K, you're missing the point... And please let's bring some levity into this awful mess! Skeuomorphism... Thanks Richard.

Sadly, they won't indeed...

It takes minutes and you only need to do it once, rest assured adobe will NOT revert the UI for you.

I don't want to spent hours to customize a UI.
I want a workable UI so I gan get to work.

If it had the ability to change every colour on every part of the UI it wouldn't need to.

Nope, Adobe needs to revert to the old UI ASAP!

lol, yeah I know..I'd had a drink last night..I knew what I meant 😛

re:  the UI, what Autodesk does have is the ability to change the UI colors, text input boxes etc, Adobe need to give this feature to it's users.

the flat look is already on the retreat on many websites, while it was very popular for a while.

I so hope you are right.

It's all a fad - the trouble is, Adobe (and other larger software companies such as Autodesk) always seem to be lagging behind: the flat look is already on the retreat on many websites, while it was very popular for a while.

Every time I open the new version of Photoshop at work my first response is to close it again. It is just so ugly looking, and eye-straining to work with.

Oh, regarding the word: