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

I think it's time we start a letter writing (old school will be more effective) to the the Adobe Board of Directors: https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe/leaders/board-directors.html. I would ask that current top three levels of Adobe "leadership" be fired. We need to become activists and let the company know our displeasure as customers. I'm suspecting that Adobe may be monitoring this conversation and that they're just waiting for the smoke to blow over so they can continue on as they always have. If we want change we must be relentless in communicating our needs and desires. We are paying customers: Adobe exists because of us. Yes, I know this is much easier said than done, but if not now, when?

I had the same about CC 2018, that I only kept installed but still used CS6 EXTENDED. I was saying like you I won't start to use it until they fix bugs I met and reported. What happened? They didn't sort them out at all, though I have been told they do it in next update, then future one and so on 😕😕

Now they released CC 2019 where those bugs are still part of, while we experience many of another ones! Then we have first update they fix current bugs but still forgeting in first instance to do something with earlier ones 😕😕

So neither I can use CC 2018 nor CC 2019, and even if bugs I'm saying they cared of finally for CC 2019, I could not use it again since how valuable would it be without bugs I waited to be fixed if new ones got introduced while new 'so-called features' disrupt my usual work.

We are now in most popular topic refered to current release, but after a month that they do is ignoring that fact by fixing less expected bugs to be sorted out!

TangCanada Me too!

I'm not using v20 until it's completely fixed and until I see happy, satisfied comments about the new version.

I'm happy using v19. I can't trust the new version.

Still nothing done about transformation behaviour, or at least giving simple option to en/disable it.

Just saw this email ---- November 2018 (version 20.0.1) release
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/fixed-issues.html

They said they fixed some bugs... whos willing to try ?
Not Me. I am sticking with 2018 until I hear better news.
Happy camper with v19.1.0

So how does this text file address all the other broken stuff in cc2019?

The only way to fix cc2019 is to ignore it even exists and dump that garbage for 2018.

Multiple undos ? big deal, it already exists in 2018.

That topic shouldn't be merged to this one, as that was clear information for newcomers who wanted quick answer for new transfomration problem.

That had to stay apart intentionally as searching for the exact solution in topics like this one users would get lost in too long theard, that made them to post the same question again and again.

In prior releases, you could resize text with the SHIFT key pressed to keep the aspect ratio correct.   As of Photoshop CC 2019, this feature is broken and no longer working.   I depend on this feature for aspect correctedness. 

Can someone explain why this feature was removed or if this was an oversight?

The bright minds at Adobe have reversed the functioning of the shift key as a modifier for the crop tool, so that instead of making it a fixed ratio, it makes it free-form. I crop far more often using free-form rather than fixed ratio, so for me this increases time needed for making what used to be simple adjustments. I have used Photoshop since the mid-1990s and I see no reason for this change. Please allow me to revert to the 2018 cropping, much as you allow Classic Mode other functions.

All other Adobe products use shift to set not free the proportions. This is a break with standards that have been in place for decades, and I don't see a good reason for it.

If I do this to the 2019 update, will all the other related problems go away?

To
revert to the legacy transform behavior, do the following:

1.    Use Notepad (Windows)
or a text editor on Mac OS to create a plain text file (.txt).

2.    Type the text below in
the text file:

TransformProportionalScale 0




3.    Save the file as
"PSUserConfig.txt" to your Photoshop settings folder:

·        
Windows: [Installation Drive]:\Users\[User
Name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019\Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Settings\

·        
macOS: //Users/[User Name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Photoshop CC 2019
Settings/