Impossible to disable scrubby zoom in latest camera raw?

Yet again, I had to roll back to Camera Raw 10.5.  The CTRL-Zoom option just draws a dashed box around the selection, it doesn't actually zoom.  The new zoom method makes no sense to me.  Also, generally speaking, the layout of the new Camera RAW was a completely unnecessary change.  Yes, I could probably get used to the new environment, but why should I?  It seems that everytime Adobe pushes out an update, my workflow grinds to a halt while I relearn how to do the tasks that I've been doing for 15+ years.

Adding to zoom issue, other really annoying changes for me;

- Zooming out using the cursor used to do zoom out in stages, now it zooms to the whole window.

- Creating a new adjustment brush should reset all the values to zero. 

- Bring back the + and - to either size of each value for quick increases and decreases

- Scrolling the mouse wheel should move the film strip along to the right, currently you have to click and slide the slider

- Can't zoom at all when using adjustment brush or spot removal, can only pan by holding the space bar.  You have to switch back to the edit tab in order to zoom which is crazy.

AFAIK, one was never able to disable scrubby sliders/zoom?  

"I wish there had been some kind of hint or tip, because it was never like that before."

https://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2020/06/acrv12-3.html

All I can tell you is, apparently not. I'm sticking with the latest Camera Raw because I don't use it that much and I can tolerate it as it is. I know, it's different. But I don't use it that much so it doesn't bother me. But I have seen reports from others that it was necessary for them to drop back to previous versions of Bridge, and that's really all I know. Sorry.

You'll have to go to the Creative Cloud Application Manager and locate Bridge. Click on the "..." and choose to uninstall the current version. Then choose to install the "most recent" older version. That should synchronize Bridge and Camera Raw.

I do not work for Adobe. I have no connections with the company whatsoever. I do know that the complaints of MANY users has been heard about the latest Camera Raw, and Adobe is working on a fix of one sort or another. What that entails, I do not know. In the meantime, the only choices are to endure Camera Raw 12.3 or revert to the previous version. If you choose to revert, here is the link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-raw-plug-in-installer.html#12_x 

There is another problem. On the previous version of ACR, on a Mac while using the spot removal tool, holding down the Option key and using the scroll wheel would zoom in and out without having to select the zoom tool. This functionality is lost in the ACR 12.3.

Now the scroll wheel just changes the brush size, regardless if the option key is pressed or not.

Please fix this.

I know who's bright idea it was, but I won't name names here. Sorry it inpires your hatred. (Some people do like it, just so you know.)

You don't have to use if if you don't like it. On the General Preferences panel turn on "Use Lightroom Style Pan and Zoom." In that mode you will need to hold down a modifier key to use scrubby zoom.