P: Free Transform - ability to set Maintain Aspect Ratio as default

99% of my transformation do NOT maintain the aspect ratio.

Conclusion: during last 7 years users expected simple improvement, while Adobe made it own not requested way, that now it is not useful for those who did not wished that, but also all others who can't deal with and are bent to revert old behaviour. Bravo!?

I was one of the people requesting and championing this change many years ago.

I can't believe how such a simple request could be implemented so poorly and so unintuitively - and in my view wrongly. Seriously - did nobody test it? They couldn't have made it more confusing had they tried. It's no wonder nobody likes it.

Thank god I don't need to use Photoshop as my daily design tool anymore.

I'd like to answer to you, but I just uninstalled Ps 19. I heard though there's some new logic in that.

Ok, is it not done just holding the shift key?

I agree! Wait until you try transform/distort. . . that's my worst nightmare!

Meanwhile it must be oviously, that it is buggy and inconsistent. And I can not imagine, that Adobe isn't already trying to fix this. Or am I wrong??
It would be just great – if not better to say – "intelligent", if they would ask betatesters from this forum for opinion and check. It seems there is no developer with vast overview, maybe they always have a special field in comparison to experienced users... at least it's my explanation to this. And I am still working with CC 2018...

Say something more what you mean...

Bug. Maintain aspect ratio constrain link on the toolbar does not work in cc 2019.
* Need to look at this bug also with the constrain link -

When you un-check the Maintain aspect ratio constrain link on the toolbar and then use transform it still maintains aspect ratio. . . un-checking the link should disable maintain aspect ratio shouldn't it? Well it doesn't.

Also shift key + transform disables Maintain aspect ratio but doesn't correspond with the constrain link on the tool bar. 

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/constrained-resize-ps-cc-20?topic-reply-list%...

Will Adobe (Photoshop) go the way of (the old) Quark Express?