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

I've run a number of art departments myself, I can't even imagine making that change in a company or agency, it would be really difficult. Adobe knows this.

For anyone having trouble getting to the correct Library folder on macOS, do the following:

1. Select and copy the following line:
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Settings/

2. In the Finder, choose  Go > Go to Folder... to open the Go to Folder window.

3. With the text field in the Go to Folder window active, choose Edit > Paste and then click Go.

Alternatives:
• In the Finder, hold the Option key when choosing the Go pulldown menu to show the User's Library folder in the Go menu list.
• In the Finder, go to Help > Search and enter "Library" and then hover your mouse of the results "Menu Items: Library".  A large blue arrow will reveal the User's Library folder.

Like many, I have been a loyal Adobe user since Photoshop 2.
I believe I owned every Suite and every upgrade.
I presently have the "full-blown" Creative Cloud".
This last round of changes, the obvious silence on the part of Adobe,  the number of complaints and a new product on the market makes me look long and hard at "Why Stay With Adobe"?
Affinity Photo and other products they make, look better every day. Affinity Photo is the first product and maybe the only product to be a real Photoshop look-a-like!
While much of the interface looks like Photoshop, it does have a learning curve. I am going through that now. 
I've also asked my Daughter who is an Art Director to take a look. She says, for a big company like hers, such a change is difficult but not impossible.

The MacOS hiding thing needs to be a preference if it isn't already. I don't need my own computer hiding files from me. LOL 

I agree Kenton. I no longer feel any loyalty towards Adobe. It’s obvious that they don’t care about their customers and I will be watching for alternatives as well.

It was too much for me, I downgraded PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign. I have felt through all of this is that no one cares. So I have no more loyalty and will be keeping my eyes open for an alternative that can reduce my monthly cost because after 20 years+ of Adobe products switching products will as hard as learning the new update.

I am not using Free Transform anymore. I am only using the crop tool now because I can still use shift and it also gives me the grid, which is something I like to see when I transform something. 

I hope they put it back, because this was really unnecessary. 

I'm glad you were able to work it out.

Since Adobe never announces its modifying a feature, we won't know if they'll do something to make this more user friendly or not— until they do it or don't.  '-}

I was using Procreate on my iPad with layers of images today—I've only recently begun to use it—and when you click on the Arrow that brings up the Transform and Move/Flip, etc., controls, by default Procreate sets the controls to free transform. It wasn't exactly sticky, either, so here I've trained myself that mobile apps use constrained transform by default, PS uses constrained transform by default, and now I was constantly resizing an image only to have it distort—same problem I'm having in Illustrator.<sigh> In Procreate I had to keep remembering to look at the controls, rather than simply start transforming on the document.

This is truly a mess across all the apps and desktop programs. Anyway, Procreate has been around a donkey's age, too, on mobile devices, so defaults are obviously anything the app designers want them to be.  If there's some standards consortium that they're all moving towards, I haven't seen the results yet with the apps I have.

I was in the user folder but sure enough, Library was hidden. First time I did try "Go to folder> Library" and it didn't take me directly to user Library...only after I unhide the folder.

Thanks! you saved me!

You have made absolutely certain you're in the user Library, and not the Macintosh HD Library? Oh, I forgot. Apple tries to hide this from us. I've unhidden it. You can use Go> Library and it will take you directly to the user Library.