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

Thanks, I just did. I found many Seth Shaw links to check out later tonight. Meanwhile I've sent Seth an email, asking him to join the conversation in this thread. Let's see...

Agreed. Our griping might make us feel good, but I don't think they give a damn.

Google "Seth Shaw Adobe." You'll get a list of sites and articles, interviews, etc. I haven't read it all yet, but maybe we'll find out some of the reasoning behind these changes. 

Have a link?

I would suggest everyone commenting here check out Seth Shaw's website and Twitter page. It provides some "interesting" insights into the Adobe ethic. I think they're not replying to anyone's comments or feedback because they're pretty satisfied with what they're doing. Plus they seem to have lots of time to goof off.

OK Adobe, it's been a few months and 6 pages of negative comments.  What's the plan here?  If you intend to continue force this UI on us, I assume you will be allowing those of us clinging to the previous version to unsubscribe to CC and keep the last usable version for free.  Yes?  

Because if you don't allow an optional rollback to the old UI in future updates, you are effectively halting development as far as a great many of us are concerned.  A magazine subscription is 12 legible issues, not  1 legible issue and 11 in hieroglyphics.  

Installing an older version is all well and good for the time being, but as more features get added to the "bad UI" version, those stuck on the older version are tossing money down the drain.  That won't last long, and it won't be because we give in and decide your UI isn't bad.  It was bad the day it came out.  It's bad today.  And unless you do something about it, it will be bad tomorrow.  And I for one will be cancelling my personal subscription and resorting to alternative methods of finding a copy of 15.0.1 to keep for free.  I will be recommending the same to the IT department in the busy retouching studio I work in.

Look at what they've done to the ellipse in Illustrator. You can't even change the width with side handles anymore; now side handles scale the entire shape. I suspect this is another case of dumbing down the interface to pander to the 0.1% of people who might use the application on a touch screen.

I'm convinced Adobe believes it's just a few cranky users, and not worth their attention. Most customers aren't complaining, so the design team are geniuses for pulling off such a wonderful interface update.

Anyone know how to revert back to the previous 2015 interface? If you "install older versions" it only offers the 2014 version. Please advise.

Adobe: You need to get a therapist/coach from Santa Cruz to train your team do some active listening "I hear your concern... thanks for your input..." Your silence is deafening. Are you all too busy thinking of other ways to devolve the product to respond to our thread? Why have these interactive boards if we are just yelling into the void?

Ok Adobe, and designer Seth Shaw in particular...the latest UI has been identified as a bad joke that does NOTHING to help users/customers at all. It is TERRIBLE.

Can someone of corporate importance please acknowledge that this enormous stuffup is at least being looked at?? The silence so far is deafening.