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

CC 2019 in whole and especially this issue really is a very sad story ... 😕😕

So another months has gone by and still no reply or solution to this desaster ?
What is going on ? 
Jeffrey, this is what you wrote 3 !! Months ago:

 Jeffrey Tranberry, Sr. Product Manager, Digital Imaging

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Official Response

"Sorry. The improvements I mentioned in the official answer did not make it into the 20.0.2 update. I’m hoping they make it into the next update. I’ll update the thread when the change is available."

I am a full time retoucher, often on set so I see how everybody working profesionally  struggles with this and nobody updates or uses the older version.

What's the plan ?

Andi

When will this be changed back.
This is driving me crazy.
It slows me down and pisses me off EVERY TIME. 

Adobe team, I understand why you may have wanted to change this. You got it wrong 20 years ago—defaults should have been that aspect ratios are constrained unless the user specifies otherwise by holding down a hotkey.

But it's TOO LATE now. Millions of people have been trained by countless hours in Photoshop that holding down the Shift key constrains proportions. And most others in the industry adopted this convention long ago, including other Adobe apps.

My co-workers and I have spent MONTHS trying to unlearn this muscle-memory in Photoshop, and still every other day I hear audible frustration as people get it wrong yet again. The decision to not apply it to all layer types just makes it even more rage-inducing.

Photoshop Team: No matter how much you are convinced that a UI decision was wrong and that it needs to be fixed, you CANNOT CHANGE ESTABLISHED RULES long after they've been established. And if you still feel the need to do so, it MUST be done in a way that can be changed in the user preferences. It's downright hostile and insulting to your users to make changes the way you did in this situation.

Can anyone else confirm that the Legacy Transform Preference wasn't added to 20.0.4?

What was that one developer talking about 3 versions ago regarding a fix for this?

Please Adobe, Listen to your users!!!

By adding an option IN PREFERENCES (not a hack job of adding configuration files) to revert back to the legacy behavior, you are still able to proceed with whatever crazy ideas you have for transform, while giving us users the behavior we expect and the consistency we need!

This request isn't a crazy unheard of feature! You already have options for legacy behaviors for things like cropping.

This alone is holding me back from upgrading to version 20, and getting any of the useful upgrades that i'm paying for. 

Howdy Deon,

You've switched to the MENA composer and Middle Eastern text layout.  Check out my video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17gM33tB1Hw

The most likely way this happened, in case you didn't switch it yourself, is that you opened someone else's doc set this way and created a new type layer.  Because settings in PS are sticky, that new doc would then have the MENA layout.

Thanks,
David

Is this going to be fixed or not?  I am going to roll back to a previous version I guess.  I have been using photoshop professionally for over 20 years... and I can not believe this was changed.  Keyboard shortcuts and fundamental things like how to resize objects are second nature. I have been fighting to relearn this stupid way of resizing objects since this version came out.  Here's a goofy thing too, when copying and pasting from illustrator, the first transformation still uses legacy shift constraining as you place the image.  wtf adobe?  you dont have to change something just to ensure i will continue paying for it. if it works LEAVE IT ALONE

Literally every post I've seen about this change talks about how much they hate it. Even when I get used to this change, Marquee tool and every other adobe program still has hold shift for proportional scaling. It disrupts everyone's workflow when they have to consciously switch back and forth when using different tools and programs. PLEASE just pick one set and stick with it for all programs and tools.   

Well, I thought I tried the shift key but obviously didn't.... sorry for the waste of time guys, this works for me now 🙂