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

Thank you Stefan. Desktop and laptop behave differently although on both the LR zoom option is unchecked. Zoom on the desktop still works like LR. Most likely because the internal graphics of the "old" i7-4790. Crop also works better on the i7-8550U laptop. 

Oliver you can deactivate LR-like zooming in the prefs.

I, too, absolutely dislike the changes made with ACR 12.3. It took some reading to find out how to make the adjustment brush keep it's setting. Zooming is now as pitiful as in LR. 
Cropping in ACR 12.3 is practically unusable for me (i7, 16Gb, internal graphics). It used to be fine, ACR used to be fine and fast. Not anymore. It just downloaded 12.2.1.

Totally agree with you. Zero respect shown by Adobe to its users.

Look... I meant no disrespect. It's been a bad day and I had just set down to about 3 hours of post production when I realized what the 12.3 update had changed. if I could edit my response I would. Since I can't, let me try to re-take the high road...

These changes are genuinely frustrating for heavy users who have a real workflow.

For me, the muscle memory I develop when using these applications is like what I have playing guitar. I don't even have to think about what I'm doing as I have my workflow down pat, and I'm very familiar w/ the interface for action outside standard workflow.

Imagine switching my guitar to a cello, right before a concert and with no notification until I walk on stage. At which point you hand me a cello and say, "here you go, we may it better for you!"  Uh... WFT? NO... I need my guitar back, and I need it now!

You wanna make a massive change like this? Fine. Make 'em. But substantial UI/UX changes w/ NO UI FALLBACK option instantly obliterates ALL existing autonomic efficiencies in your user base. These take time to develop and will take time to redevelop. That is NOT good. And all this with little (if any?)user requests, input, notification or involvement?!?!?  Yeah... that's gonna generate some serious complaints; but more importantly, bad will.

Just give us a UI fallback option for at least two major version releases.

Over the course of those releases, odds are YOU will decide to re-implement some old things, just as WE will likely decide to adopt some new things - which moves us closer together as users and developers. Not driven apart by wedges such as the ACR 12.3 release.

My thanks in advance to anyone w/ Adobe's ACR dev team who reads this and give it credence.

Ps. For the record, I have NOT reverted ...YET. I'm going to force myself to use this updated UI/UX for my post work tonight and then objectively reassess my position.

Here we go...

Good grief - I created a login to this site for the sole reason to chime in on this thread and say how completely F'd up the ACR 12.3 is !!!!!!! I used to run a software dev team and I can promise you this stupidity of an update didn't go through one single honest-to-goodness USER of ACR !!!  If they did, the project director should be fired. I mean seriously, apart from the total screwup of the new interface, have you tried the CROP tool? The damn thing stays in the middle of the page and you have to move the entire photo underneath the crop frame - SHEER STUPIDITY !!!!! why on G's green earth Adobe feels compelled to continually jack with stuff that NO ONE WANTS OR ASKS FOR is the most infuriating thing about being an Adobe customer. Another person reverting to 12.2.1 to maintain sanity due to this STOOOOOOPID interface update.

I agree with you Aniaina, Change is not better nor is new better if it is a step backwards like this. It looks like the new ACR UI has been designed by a lightroom enthusiast with a dislike for traditional ways that are smooth, fast and simple. In favour of a much more awkward, slow and complex way of working!  

How did the 'Photoshop Family' become a dictatorship by Adobe rather than the democracy that it should be? After all, we are the paying customers, we should have the choice to use the old UI, especially if people have been using it for so long!

As if I had a car and you say, here is a bicycle, it can do the job too.
That is a change, it can do the job, we can adapt ourselves if we had no choice.
But the change is in the wrong direction, that is the problem.