Photoshop: Bring back Precise cursor without white border

I have started using Photoshop CC because my previous version, CS3, will not run on the new Mac I recently bought. I always expect new versions of software to be worse than the previous ones, but this new Photoshop version has a design flaw that is making it very difficult for me to do precise selecting. The problem is that the crosshair of the "precise" cursor in the lasso tools is no longer as precise as the one in CS3. The thin black crosshair is surrounded by a needless thicker white crosshair, utterly destroying its preciseness. Please fix this problem in future releases of Photoshop. 

Something is very slightly different with the cursors and marquee in CC 2015.1 - but it's hard to put my finger on it. I think now the white border that was around the crosshairs is now behind the marque - which is a step forward.

But I could be imagining things. I'd still like the option of the border being removed completely.

Not fixed. Photoshop CC 2015.

I don't think the issue has been promoted enough.

Has this issue been fixed yet in Photoshop yet? The entire reason I still use CS3 (yes, cs3), is because when I tried to move to CS6, I was so put off, and disgusted by the cursors in it, that I said, no... I need to keep my productivity up, so I'm sticking with CS3 until they get this right.

This is a tool for visual artists or otherwise visually oriented people. To have such a massive, ugly, fat cursor floating about feeling like a kindergartners toy, is just unprofessional and a disgrace to the application. An application that is an expensive tool, not a toy.

So my problem is that when I ́m painting I like to use the "Show Only Crosshair While Painting". It ́s perfect that I see the size and shape of the brush while hovering and then when I press down then the shape of the brush hides and I ́m only left with a small cross in the middle. I can then concentrate on the stroke itself.

But instead of a small cross it now goes to the (not to precise anymore) precision tool. It ́s a bit strange when I have a very small 1-2 pixel brush and am doing detail work that I have the size of the brush (a small crosshair) and then when I click then it blows up to the clunky precision tool. If that makes any sense.

Would it be possible to either remove the white border on the precision tool or have the "Show Only Crosshair While Painting" be an actual small crosshair instead of the clunky precision tool?

bump please

No news lately, but I'll give the engineering team a bump and see where things go from there.

Brett - I don't suppose you have any insight on the status on this, do ya? I didn't mean to sound like a smarmy bugger in my previous reply.

yes, I find it very hard to see the curser when doing highly magnified detailed brushwork, they ought to have an option for solid black curser. I tried to take a screen shot of the curser to show how practically invisible it actually is, but the curser did not show up at all on the screenshot.

I think it was changed due to an API issue when they updated Photoshop from Carbon to Cocoa, and the Windows version was probably changed to be consistent with the Mac version.

The visibility of paths was also degraded in CS5. I think they had used the same API blending mode as the inverted cursors:
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...