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

The swapped transform constraint is a major pain in the ass. Can you please, for once, just put it back the way it bloody was. It still catches me out .. Every. Single. Time. I have 20 yrs of muscle memory with this. Not to mention you left it the other way for literally everything else.

If Adobe didn't care, I doubt we'd have this forum in which Adobe employees participate.  

I suppose some competition could help.  If you don't need the full image editing feature set of PS, there are other choices (not many, but some).

A monopoly that doesn't care and/or is not in touch with its customers. A market ripe for competition.

This idiotic change should have started out as a beta test option in prefs with continued development aimed at those who want to experiment and report back on its usage and bugs.

To just change it and shove it down our throats is plain dictatorial.
PS 2019 is a train wreck already happened.

There is a video tutuorial for iPad's "Real Photoshop" showing that there is infact another method of using the left hand input.   Its a floating, onscreen, single button that could be used for the "shift/constrain".  IMHO: What a joke, anyone who is willing to use the free hand for input is inevitably going to want a full keyboard.  One extra button cannot turn a novelty hobbie tool into a professional tool, Adobe.

Agreed, touch is a completely different context - everything works differently so it's totally fine that desktop apps work differently.
But, if you decide to change a fundamental industry-wide convention, then do it properly.

While I’m convinced this change was made to make the default behavior of this basic behavior consistent between desktop and tablet, tablet has totally different inputs and muscle memory which is what confounds me about the decision to make changes that would ostensibly make Photoshop perform more consistently between platforms. It doesn’t. People have been saying that maybe Adobe is becoming more like Microsoft, but even they maintain experience differences between different types of screens. Xbox is different from pc, and tablet mode is different from desktop in Windows. Adobe is trying to shoehorn a baked product into a different shaped loaf pan.

I’ve been using Photoshop for design work since the mid Aughts and this is the first time I rolled back to an earlier version of an Adobe product.

Lots of mistakes; not identifying how fundamental 'Shift to constrain' is, so not changing it in the 100s of places it needs changing, no fallback, and now no acknowledgement or roadmap for doing it right.

We're pros, we can adapt to fundamental changes but this isn't well-executed. It's low-quality, half-baked work that deserves to be called out. What an embarrassment.

I agree in part, but not completely. If you've ever used Affinity for the iPad, you know you can do a lot to start a project, then finish it at your desktop. This can be as necessary in professional settings as it might be fun for personal use. The time is beginning where the line between mobile and desktop is getting blurry enough to transition.

But since I'll have to keep on saying it or you all with think I don't like choice—that doesn't mean I think Adobe should force behavior on us. They should be expanding options for managing our workflow. In the bad old days of limited horsepower, that may have made sense, but today I believe most computers they support can handle more options for how each individual chooses to work.

Similar to the move to Lightroom CC from Lightroom Classic, it seems like Adobe is focused on a different set of users rather than those of us professionals using their apps long term. For smart phone photographers, LR CC web based and PS on the iPad seems like a great idea and will make that group of users happy. Why they feel the need to change existing apps rather than just offer a set of new apps for that special group of users is a mystery to me. 

Most of us professionals are using computers with large displays to make editing easier and far more accurate that it ever will be on a phone or iPad screen. If I was making the decisions at Adobe, I would want to capture that new group as well but would work extremely hard to maintain my support from the existing customer base using our products.

Why they put Lightroom CC in the top part of the Adobe Cloud App list of apps and bury Lightroom Classic way down below is an indication of where Adobe seems to be going. For me, this is the bellwether of things to come. I have been a loyal and supportive Adobe customer and professional teaching classes in LR and PS for many years. Even I am worried about where this is all headed.

So far, I continue to be loyal and support Adobe but like the rest of you, I am carefully watching to see where this is going.