Bring Back the Obsolete Effects

Color Replace doesn't work for you?

Sorry; don't know why this posted twice. And I'm unable to delete the duplicate 😞

My main is issue is that Adobe removed these features without giving us suitable alternatives. 

For color, HSL is great at changing colors. But! That is only if you don't have a specific color you are trying to change it to. If I have the hex code for a color I need to change an object to, even though it wasn't perfect, the obsolete Change to Color effect was my best option. I wouldn't be upset at Adobe if they updated the coding of that effect or replaced it with a more modern version or expanded Lumetri. But they didn't.

Same with the Paint Bucket. It was a work-around because Premiere doesn't have a stroke option. There have been numerous posts asking to add one. And this update cleaning out the obsolete effects was a perfect opportunity to add one.

I think telling Adobe that the alternative recommendations they have posted about are not up to snuff IS useful feedback. 

If Adobe doesn't have a suitable replacement ready for use, then they should not get rid of an obsolete effect, no matter how small the amount of people who use it. 

As noted in numerous posts here ... those effects were each used by less than 1% of the user base. Not hardly used by many people, though like you, I did use a couple at times.

Though as it was clear they were going away, I avoided them most of the time out of simple self preservation.

But such low-use things are not coming back in general. They were ancient code, not using the GPU, and for many of the effects touching color the math was bad. Leading colorists simply said avoid them like the plague. As they were 'plague' to our pixels.

So ... if there are things like the paint bucket, please ... post Ideas on fixing the replacement options to get the functionality you are missing.

That is do-able over time. Do something actually helpful.

The "Obsolete" effects are not coming back period.