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

Don't forget the Crop Tool change in PS CS6.... that was a masterful screw-up if ever!

They have made stupid, unnecessary, default changes to a lot of things in the past few years and every time gotten hammered for it. Its like someone just can't learn from their mistakes.

Now that we seem to have a "fix" for this ridiculousness Adobe has foisted upon us, maybe we can move on and actually get work done. Everyone who's still  complaining I urge you to do the PSUserConfig.txt fix listed below and move on. It fixes the crop tool too. Bonus. What I have NOT seen is any official acknowledgement on Adobe's part that they royally screwed this up. The ONLY thing I've seen from our esteemed product manager is to use a modifier key when pulling guides mid transform. If  I were in charge of the Ps division, whoever was responsible for this mess would have been gone yesterday. But if I were in charge, it never would have happened. 

It's definitely hundreds of thousands. I spent ten minutes trying to scale an icon and searching the web until I figured out they reversed the behavior. It's like taking every Xbox controller and deciding that "reversed" is the new standard.

Yes, I agree with you Dennis. I would also like to know if the difference between scaling text layers, smart layers, shapes and regular layers were intentional. If so I would very much like to know the exact reason for this and what Adobe think it will help solving?!? 

To me, I still sit with a question mark above my head of exactly what Photoshop CC 2019 brought to the table  that has made it a better than it was. Multiple Undos - all ready there (just forced changed the shortcut on us). Uniform scale was all ready there (just forced changed the shortcut). Color wheel is nice but too little and too late - we all ready got way better plugins for that. and any optimizations made to the program, I really cannot notice, in fact for me everything is just slightly more laggy (layers in particular).  If the adobe team need ideas on where to continue the development they should announce that...or was this just a good way to save a few bucks this year?

I've been using Photoshop professionally since Photoshop 2.
Most of the time, updates had value and few if any were just plain unnecessary.
Changing how a selected layer is constrained has no apparent value.
Did it bring value to something else in the program? Probably not!
Two weeks ago  David Tristram, an Adobe employee, wrote the following:
"new feature, use Shift to *un* constrain.  Constrain to fixed aspect is now on by default"
What he wrote could be easily interpreted as:
You guys are all stupid and I am the Photoshop God. Therefore, we made this change and you will have to get used to it!  
Just imagine how nice it would have been if he had written a great explanation as to why this change was made!

This change says so much about Adobe it’s not funny.

Today elapsed exactly 2 weeks you started this theard. It gives over 3 users per day unliking Adobe decision. This two weeks more would be sufficient also to find by testers most shocking truth how badly it affects everyday work in Photoshop since even if someone may be fine with new way of free / proportional transform it exploited about six bugs you find reading just this one theard refered to only one over 20 years working well behaviour before last mistaken release!

I could not agree with you more. The amount of bandwidth being spent on this topic is stunning. Adobe would have tested, retested, confirmed and turned it inside out before making this kind of change without user input...

If there was not subscription payment model they would not play with us so easily 😉