Persisent Issues with Type Tool

Hello,

A few years back, a topic was made regarding an issue I have also been experiencing for quite some time:

I would have commented on the original topic, however it was closed and engineering was allegedly looking into the problem. But as of today, the issues described still persist in Photoshop 2026 (Windows 11).  As the original poster mentioned, when you place text and the line is blank, you cannot freely move it around as you would if existing text was there.  Also as the poster described, there is an invisible “bounding box” where I see the cursor change to the Move Tool cursor when I’m within close proximity of the text, but moving too far out changes it to the default OS cursor (at which clicking anywhere commits the text). I can also confirm that holding down the Alt key does alleviate the text movement issue altogether, but I am unsure if this is intended behavior or a programming oversight/bug.

The “ReduceUXFriction 0” does not exist anymore on the page that was linked in the original post. Moreover, I did try the  "OnCanvasClickToCommit 0" and it still made no difference to the Type Tool (though it does correctly affect transform actions, so I know the setting is applying properly).

Is holding down the Alt key simply the new expected behavior for modern versions of Photoshop?  I come from the PS 7 era and many of these basic functions were consistent between versions (CS, CS2, and so on).  It just seems strange that something like this would have been purposely changed, but I appreciate any help or information provided!