P: Ability to arrange & customize save-as file formats so popular formats are at the top

Just to (respectfully) inject some perspective from another product developer: if you have millions of users, and you're slicing your priorities according to things that have hundreds of votes rather than dozens... maybe the approach to prioritization is flawed?  Because your granularity is .0001% vs. .00002%.

In that light, maybe a suggestion which clearly would touch 100% of your users deserves a different weighting?

My company has maybe 25,000 users, and we listen to anyone who takes the time to write; but the #1 method we use for choosing which features and enhancements to prioritize is... our own judgment as product development specialists.  We're in a unique position to understand the ways of doing the most good for the most people, which is different than seeking to soothe the small groups of disproportionately vocal users (aka the grumps).

It is understood - scientifically proven, actually - that people are very bad at predicting what they want or what will make them happy.  They tend to overfocus on the 1 or 2 things that are under their skin, which skews their perspective away from the countless other smaller --- but cumulatively *more impactful* --- sources of friction and inefficiency that escapes their notice.

I'm not talking about bugfixes, I'm talking about the kinds of functional and organizational enhancements that reduce the number of muscles, brain cells, and synaptic transmissions required to get from point A to point B.  In our experience EVERYONE loves those, they are rare gems in the UIX world and we pounce on them whenever they make their rarefied presence known.

I submit that this request is exactly that kind of enhancement.  Thanks for listening 🙂

I know. I've been asking for it since version 2.5. I hate to think how many years that is

People have been asking for this for much more than a decade... don't hold your breath.

If only.....

That's something.

Well anyway there is a workaround to at least remove SOME formats in Photoshop CS6 Mac.

You just have to right-click on the photoshop icon, go into "show package contents" and then :
contenst / required / plugins / file formats and remove the ones you can like jpeg2000, pcx and pixar. 

Well, here's to hoping I see it in my lifetime. 5 years is a long time for something to be on the back burner. Appreciate your efforts anyway.

Think about it: we have millions of users, several thousand requests, and dozens of new requests every day. If we brought all those requests to a meeting, the meeting would never end. We have to prioritize, and votes/support/number of requests is a primary means for prioritizing requests. (because we'd all much rather be implementing features and fixing bugs than stuck in meetings)

We are constantly implementing customer requests (big and small) and fixing bugs. We don't have infinite resources or infinite time to do all this work, so we have to prioritize. We can't get every request implemented in a release, but we look at the requests and re-prioritize them while planning each new release.

So, yeah, we hear you. Just because your request isn't completed immediately does not mean we are not listening. It just means that we have limits, too.

Yes, I am one of the lead developers on Photoshop.

We consider all the requests we receive, and only reject them if they are completely impossible or cause more harm than good.
But we do prioritize them mostly by how many people have requested/supported the feature.

Hey Chris-- sorry if I am harshing on you-- it's nothing personal. And I see the tone of this topic has become more civil-- thanks for considering the suggestion.

My main point is about customer service: if someone takes the time to suggest an improvement, especially one which is obvious, I think Adobe should say "thanks-- we appreciate your feedback" and put on the agenda at the next brainstorming meeting. It's all these tweaks to the software that keep you developers employed and challenged at your jobs, and can maintain Adobe's hegemony in the creative software industry.

I have suggested quite a few improvements to the software over the years and the general response is: not interested and defensive. It's so nice to have the "ear" of someone at Adobe. I just wish I could be heard more readily.