P: Revert UI to older Camera Raw UI (12.2.1) after Interface Changes

Has anyone noticed the mouse scroll wheel for sizing the spot removal tool and local adjustment brush in the new UI is counter to what is 'normal'. Rotating the wheel forward/backward decreases/increases the size, which is opposite to what Lightroom Classic does and every other program I've ever used! Scrolling the image vertically is also back to front! Simply dreadful QA.

Sorry for the repost but the forum software messed up when I tried to edit to correct Kevin's name to Lynam.

Kevin Layman the strangest thing with the third party sites pushing this new ACR UI are the comments respondents are saying how great that ACR is now like LightRoom that they can stop using LightRoom altogether. Adobe unwittingly are killing the use of LightRoom.

Who should really be upset are people with standalone Photoshop subscriptions. They clearly wanted nothing to do with LightRoom. I only started a yearly Photography subscription in 2019 as the bundle included the use of Photoshop and ACR. The only reason I installed LightRoom was to turn off some feature LightRoom Adobe was sending me emails about and the only way to deactivate the settings was to install it. Before 2019 I had been using CS4 for with a 10 year old ACR.

I have been using Bridge and ACR to manage and edit image files since the very first release. Over the years I have looked at a lot of other software to do those things but none are as efficient and productive as a combination as Bridge and ACR including LightRoom.

It's not a matter of learning the new way in the new UX it is a matter of accepting less productive, inefficiencies and more time consuming. The new modern UX Adobe is giving ACR is a cookie cutter consumer based internet webpage layout. It has nothing what so ever to do with a practical GUI for professionals.

Kevin Layman the strangest thing with the third party sites pushing this new ACR UI are the comments respondents are saying how great that ACR is now like LightRoom that they can stop using LightRoom altogether. Adobe unwittingly are killing the use of LightRoom.

Who should really be upset are people with standalone Photoshop subscriptions. They clearly wanted nothing to do with LightRoom. I only started a yearly Photography subscription in 2019 as the bundle included the use of Photoshop and ACR. The only reason I installed LightRoom was to turn off some feature LightRoom Adobe was sending me emails about and the only way to deactivate the settings was to install it. Before 2019 I had been using CS4 for with a 10 year old ACR.

I have been using Bridge and ACR to manage and edit image files since the very first release. Over the years I have looked at a lot of other software to do those things but none are as efficient and productive as a combination as Bridge and ACR including LightRoom.

It's not a matter of learning the new way in the new UX it is a matter of accepting less productive, inefficiencies and more time consuming. The new modern UX Adobe is giving ACR is a cookie cutter consumer based internet webpage layout. It has nothing what so ever to do with a practical GUI for professionals.

Only a minority like it.

Not the real top daily users.

I use some of the Topaz products. The only thing is that Topaz Support will ignore help requests worse than my cat ignores requests... I gave up on Topaz support; if I cannot figure out something myself, I just move on...

Yes Alan you can use another product (hence ”move on”).

Andrew Rodney: "Those are the only two options" -- No, fortunately this is not true, as the free market provides other options. As an extensive user of Topaz PS plugins (and decades-long user of Adobe PS), I for one have been tempted in the past to move to the free Topaz Studio (one of the few viable options that include layers, which I an a heavy user of in PS). Up to now the only thing stopping me from making the switch is the time required for the learning curve to develop the proficient work flow that I have developed with Bridge/ACR. For now, I have reverted to prior Bridge/ACR versions, but this is only a temporary fix. If Adobe fails to listen to the outcry of disgust with this new version, and forces that same time-intensive learning curve to try to regain proficiency with their new UI, I have absolutely no problem using that time to learn the Topaz system and cancel the Adobe subscription.

Here we go again....Rodders and his quotes......must be a bot.

Adobe does have a long history. Of changing GUI and other areas of the software.
Learn to use the new methods or revert to the older version; move on. Those are the only two options that are effective other than complaining which will get you NOWHERE.
Pre-Release spent a lot of time making suggestions about the GUI. LONG before anyone here posted their opinions. The ship has sailed. 

As to so called 'off the charts pissed off reactions, easy to cherry pick reactions praising the GUI. 

"Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining". -Mason Cooley