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

I can appreciate your perspective on this. And I can almost buy that if they change it in all the Adobe Suite at once, maybe we could get used to it. Kinda. But as someone else mentioned, it's a slippery slope now. So what if you draw a rectangle. Or a circe or a line. Do you also no longer hold shift? When you draw a rectangle in a layout program, you probably don't want it to be a perfect square. So now you have the opposite issue, you are holding shift to draw every diagonal line and rectangle. I dunno, this is such a legacy functionality, I would be curious to understand the research behind it and see why they thought this was a better option.

This is probably great for noobs using PS to scale their family photo. Sucks for those of us who do production since every other app used shift.

This is clearly yet another example of PS making 'features' that don't work in the real world. They obviously did not QA test with real-time users.

Agreed !

For the past TEN YEARS "free transform" has worked by clicking and dragging an edge to pull it out to where you wanted it to go. If you wanted all the edges to move at the same time AKA SCALE the image, you held shift while dragging an edge. SUDDENLY, someone got it into their head to SWITCH these actions so it scales automatically and you have to hold shift to drag just one edge. Why, why, why, why, why, why?!?  

Because those who get to decide what changes in PS are not folks with deadlines and workflows.

I really hope they put it back the way it was, and give those who want to constrain the free transform a check box to do so.

Totally agree!

For the past TEN YEARS "free transform" has worked by clicking and dragging an edge to pull it out to where you wanted it to go. If you wanted all the edges to move at the same time AKA SCALE the image, you held shift while dragging an edge. SUDDENLY, someone got it into their head to SWITCH these actions so it scales automatically and you have to hold shift to drag just one edge. Why, why, why, why, why, why?!? 

PLEASE make an option in the preferences to change it back. Ten years of working fine and you had to go and change the little things that work and completely ruin people's work flow for no obvious reason!

It's a bug. I've reported it.

And shouldn't the unlink icon do something? Right now it seems like it does nothing....?

I know... it's nuts!