P: Tool keyboard shortcuts keep picking first tool and not remembering what I used before

When selecting the direct selection tool, the selection usually sticks, even though you select another tool. But with latest update the tool resets everytime you quick jump to the tool using "A".

Very basic and frustrating bug 🙂

Thanks!

Great. Thanks, Jeffrey!

Great idea, thanks! 
I'm a pixel artist, too 🙂 

This is major for me as well as I use the pencil tool extensively for pixel art. Switching selection tools can be manageable to a certain degree, but drawing tools are essential to work smoothly. If you want a suggestion, as a quick fix for now use the Edit/Tool customisation menu and drag the pencil tool on top of the hierarchy of the drawing tools. By doing so when the bug occurs at least you'll have the pencil tool being selected instead of the brush tool.

My problem is with the pencil tool reverting to the brush tool.

When will it be fixed? I had to roll back.

Repro:
1.) Switch e.g. Rectangular Marquee Tool to Elliptical by pressing "SHIFT + M"
2.) Now select Move Tool pressing "V"
3.) Then select again Marquee Tool by "M"

Marquee Tool is now reset to default Rectangular.

This behaviour is the same on all other subtools if you switch to Move Tool by "V" before.
Do it by mouse click and everything works as expected.

After updating to Photoshop CC 2017.1.0, I'm encountering an issue when switching between tools using keyboard shortcuts.  Instead of Photoshop remembering my previously selected tool (e.g. pencil tool), switching back will give me the default tool for a given shortcut key (brush instead of pencil).

How to reproduce this issue:

Start out by drawing with the pencil tool, press "v" to switch to the move tool, and then press "b" again to switch back to the pencil tool. I get the brush tool instead of getting my previously-selected pencil tool.  Same thing happens if you select the Elliptical Marquee Tool, then press "v" to switch to the move tool, then press "m" to switch back to the Elliptical Marquee Tool -- you get the default Rectangular Marquee tool instead.  This didn't happen for me in the previous version of Photoshop, and it's making it difficult to take advantage of shortcut keys.

Seems similar to this issue from 2015:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/photoshop-cc-2015-1-1-tool-shortcuts-resettin...