Label Color

Ha! 🙂 That's on my main machine. I also have a nearby Tester where I install everything on before I install it on my main machine. I leave versions on the tester.

Only one version?

Huh, I never remove prior versions. My current main rig has through 2018, and my old main (now the backup machine) has clear back to CS6 and CC and CC2014. Including ... SpeedGrade!

Yes ...

I only keep one version installed on my main machine, but since I new this change was coming, I took a picture of a timeline in 24.3 and then 24.4.1 when I got it, and they are not that much different:

Maybe I'm missing something here but I'm paying them for a product with a certain level of speed and functionality. They don't pay me for the time I have to spend on forums and experimenting thier beta versions- that's the QA deprtment job. They just push a version on you and don't worry care about publishing the required information properly. This is a corporate approach that disrespects the customer. How many times have we upgraded to versions with "improvements" without or just a minor benefit to us and discovered that the version is full of bugs?

How many times have people here rolled back versions?

Do you really think you need to spend 100 hours a year to understand what they are pushing next time?

1- The change of the labels does not work as it should in the "new approach".
2- The change was forced upon us without the possibility of preserving the old values.
Does this seem reasonable to you or should they have test it first and users allowed to stay with what they are used to as an option?
that's a basic request. 
And if the whole interface goes pink without any other option- you'll understand it just because they published a post in a blog you follow?

I'm glad Adobe is having at Premiere Pro, they are modernizing it and as long as they continue the performance upgrades also, then I'm in. It just takes a little adjustment. 

FWIW: Google chrome has recently switched from the "Download Bubble" on to bottom taskbar icon to the Top Download Shelf. I was lamenting the change myself. Temporarily there was an inner 'flag' you could set to get the old feature back, that disappeared and then there was a parameter you could pass when starting chrome. Then that was gone. I noticed the other day, I was looking first at the top, so, I'm used to it now.

Well done Adobe, keep the improvements coming!

They do test with a fair amount of people in zoom and in-person things at events like NAB, plus the colors have been in the public beta for some time. There was both an announcement post, and a lot of discussion about them, on the public beta forum. I'd suggest adding that forum to your list of things to scan for new stuff sometime each week.

There's a "What's New" post they'll link to on this forum for each update, and of course there's an icon in the upper right for any new version you install to go to the "What's new" page.

There have been a lot of users wanting updates to the look, more color choices and all. So this was in response to user requests. And I've seen a fair number of posts from editors who are thrilled with the new options. So it's something you may not like, but others may love.

Like anything else in such complex, complicated apps.

Personally, I'm a huge fan of giving the users more choices for anythiing including UI appearence. Which this does do. "We" can do far more personalization to taste than we ever could before, more so than in any other NLE. Resolve for instance is very locked down. Very few user changeable settings to the app.

I am not a fan of the brightness/saturation of the audio waveforms when they "invert" ... way, way too bright/saturated. And while you can select the hues/sat/brightness of all sorts of things now, that inversion thing is a pain.

I've readjusted my timeline colors, made the blue more blue less teal, and a bit darker, and the audio green more green less yellow, and a bit darker also. But the inverted part of the waveform ... I would dearly love to turn that brightness and sat down A LOT.