P: Transform/Resize is constrained by default - Want ability to go back to legacy behavior

I meant “UNNECESSARY” change.

@7299225. Gray: No worries; just didn't want that to get perpetuated the wrong way.
It is fine to not use the Free Transform, it's not a requirement to use it. I sort and crop in Lightroom too because I like to print, but when I work in Photoshop I use Free Transform on almost any graphic or image I edit/create, and since version 5, so this was a completely necessary move, and I hope Adobe restores the default to "FREE" Transform, and adds a check box on top somewhere, (or in the preferences), so that anyone who wishes to keep it constrained by default can without messing up our workflows.

Well, when you freely admit that you don't use FT enough to develop automated muscle memory, that pretty much says it all. I often times use Free Transform a hundred times a day  or more and not just for scaling. I use pretty much every modifier key that affects how the tool works and while the script fixes most of this crap, there's still the shortened "auto commit" distance which trips me up all the time. That's another muscle memory sort of thing they screwed with without asking. I'm still skeptical that they can get it right, especially when they quite apparently thought this was the right way to "transform" the program.

Mrs. Giamanco,  Sorry for the gender confusion.  Thanks for the explanation about the use by 12 years olds.  I am not personally a big fan of Scott Kelby, but that is a different subject.  I happen to prefer the change to the free transform and have talked to others who agree.  That does not change the fact that the change has annoyed many.  I think that some go too far in their assumption that everybody but 12 year olds and occasional weekend users wanted it changed back the way it was.  It would make much more sense for it to be a preference.  I did not request this change.  I have never been involved in Adobe research.  I do not do free transform often enough to develop what some have fairly called "muscle memory".  I presume the reason I prefer the new way is that most of the time when I use the tool I want to constrain proportions and more often than not I forget to hold another key down.  To me holding down shift is not too hard and not holding down is not too hard.  I have been using Photoshop for 22 years.  I am sure I have not had anything to do with why Adobe made this change.  I am not even sure why I have been reading every post on this thread.  I am just weary of the "me too" one sidedness of the comments.  I am not sure why I care.  Just for the record I am lot older than 12.  I am neither a weekend user nor a professional who makes a living working on Photoshop.

That is great news!

I did not want to revert, because not updating software has it's own disadvantages.

Fingers crossed!

Thank you Rosa. 🙂

Phew, thanks Jeffrey, relieved to hear there's somebody listening after all.

Absolutely perfectly said Alexandra  

It's still no excuse for radio silence for the last couple of months. And really, is it THAT hard for them to make this work for all of us or are they going to do it some some weird roundabout way that causes even more problems. How 'bout it beta team? Or was the lack of a beta team part of the problem too.