Pasteboard?

I did, because the default hotkey to something so essential had just disappeard after the update.  Had to look at the older version of Animate on my work computer to see what the feature was even called (Pasteboard).  My workaround now is to reassign the old Pasteboard toggle hotkey (Cmd + Shift + W) to "Clip to Stage" and then manually center the stage.  But I'm still missing how the old way would automatically align the workspace to the upper left.  Guess I'll just suck it up and get used to it as Adobe likes to keep longtime users scrambling :/

Thanks for the suggestions and help. This is definitely a bit longer way around but not by a lot.

I am using AutoHotKey + Greenshot for automation of the process. While having "Hide border" button next to "Clip content" one would be easier I will write a macro for that. Thank you for this workaround.

Quite a few people did get angry. It was an intentional removal, as the only extra thing it gave you was that the stage was pushed into the upper left.

There are bugs logged for issues where you're able to select symbols that are in the hidden areas when using clip contents.

i can't envision any reason to hide the backstage/pasteboard now that you can toggle 'clip content outside of stage'.  so, i don't imagine anyone cares (unless they fail to find that toggle).