P: Spring Loaded shortcuts more sensitive - Turn off toggling between tools

You're welcome, I'm glad it's working for you! 

OMG you are a lifesaver! I downloaded AutoHotKey and mapped my brush & eraser keys to send twice -- it's working really well so far! Thank you so much!!! Let's hope Photoshop comes with a solid fix for this soon.

I think I might have found a temporarily solution with AutoHotKey by mapping "b" and "e" to actually send each letter twice (since it happens most often for me when I switch frequently between brush and eraser while drawing) - I'll need to test it a bit more over the coming weeks but it seems to be promising, at least until Adobe addresses it.

@dmohr Hey David, it had been over half a year since you put in the request, and more updates had come and went, and nothing is done. Will you just accept that this is a bug and not a feature and escalate it as such? Meanwhile your programmers rather spent their time on doing stupid things like changing how the "Save as" option work, than fixing something that directly affecting the users' workflow. 

Again, do we have to say again, it's half a year, and even more since we brought this issue up! And I will straight up tell you I no longer recommend photoshop to any of the new students in the industry. 

This issue needs to be solved. My eraser and brush tool will randomly switch between each other as well after clicking on the hot key to switch. This is highly disruptive to my workflow and has only been an issue for the past year or so. Stop changing things that never needed to fixed! And please consider us digital painters in your updates! Every other update has affected something that virtually all digital painters do on a day to day basis. 

Adding my voice to the people wanting to see this addressed, hoping it won't be long because it really messes with workflow patterns that have been in place for years.

The issue: Spring-loaded keys switches back to your previous tool if you were pressing a shortcut key when you started using that tool with the mouse/stylus. Its behaviour changed somewhere after the Photoshop 2019 releases.

Pre-2019 the spring-loaded function only occurred if you held the keyboard shortcut for the entire duration of your mouse/stylus stroke and then released the shortcut key after you lifted the mouse/stylus, at which point it would revert back to the previous tool when you released that shortcut key.

This was changed in a post-2019 version so you don't need to be holding the shortcut key for the entire duration of the stroke, if you release it at any point in the stroke it will make it spring loaded and revert to the previous tool when the stroke finishes.

Why this is a problem: It is incredibly disruptive to workflow and user experience because it makes tool changes happen independently to your input. With how spring-loaded keys worked previously, they only occurred when you were intentionally holding the shortcut key for the entire stroke duration, and the revert happened when you released the key; this makes sense and is intuitive since the tool only changed when you were operating its shortcut key. Now the revert doesn't happen when you release the key, it is instead queued up if you released the key at all during the stroke: this is unintuitive and can lead to situations where you do a 10 second long brush stroke and then have the program change tools on its own as soon as you lift your stylus even if you released the shortcut key 9 seconds ago.

The real problem for day-to-day use with this is that illustrators rapidly switch between the brush and eraser tools and work at a fast enough pace that they start a stroke essentially simultaneously with when they press the shortcut key, which means they always register as spring-loaded since it sees that the key was being pressed when the stroke started, even though the key is released literally immediately and the artist never wanted it to be spring-loaded. This was fine with the previous intuitive spring-loaded key implementation (where it only happened if you were holding the key the entire stroke duration), but now it results in every eraser stroke ending with the the tool suddenly swapping back to the brush without user input.

The solution: Return to the pre-2019 functionality where you have to be holding the key for the entire stroke and only have it revert tools when you release the key after the stroke is complete. Alternatively, only queue a spring-loaded tool reversion if you've held the key down for a reasonable length of time beyond what could be accidental (e.g. half a second or more).

This is why i cancelled my private membership almost a year ago or more, been using procreate for a long time and im way happier with it since this issue STILL isnt fixed and ive been having a problem with it since winter of 2018! Only use PS for work since the company pays for it and im still pissed at this 'feature' because it just cripples my workflow so much.  

I am in the same situation as you, and spent similar amount, Photoshop have been my go-to work program for over a decade. Even after I bought Clip Studio last year, I rarely use it despite it having some fantastic features for drawing but because most of my workflow is entrenched in Photoshop, I didn't jump over.

But this spring loaded "feature" nonsense is getting on my nerve so much, that I had proceed to make my jump and start learning Clip Studio and researching to see how close it can mimic my photoshop flow. (Which is getting really close)

@Jay Van Esbroek That's why I wish that they rise it up as a "bug" issue rather than a "feature" request. Pretty sure it's a lot less pressing for the engineers to work on a new feature than fixing a bug.

Meanwhile I got over the bug by switching over to another program. 

'Nother update came out today. Still no toggle for Spring Loaded Tools.

I'm sure the engineers are hard at work on it. /sarcasm