Please stop updating so often with user interface changes. It's getting too hard to keep up and we waste so much time relearning and adjusting our workflow.

They didn’t break anything for probably most of us ... except that we had to re-learn how to mask. All of maybe five-ten minutes, and a day or two of working a bit slower getting the muscle memory down.

And for that pain, we got a vastlly more capable,  powerful, and faster masking tool. Easy trade-off …

But is you don’t read the documentation it’s not going to work. Read. They give a tool tip for it on the timeline toolbar. Just click the tooltip.

The change itself was definitely positive. My frustration is that the masking and tracking tools changed location and icons between v26 and v26.0.2 — and possibly as early as v26.0.1.

What is frustrating is having to research and relearn every minor update in the middle of a project.

The main reason I have stayed with Premiere is that I have already paid for my plugins. I genuinely need Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, and while Premiere’s features can often be replaced with free alternatives, replacing my paid plugins would mean additional cost.

For me, this is simply an economic issue, and at times it feels like Premiere is not considering that impact. I understand these changes are not as simple as they may seem, but I am asking Adobe to measure twice and cut once.