Scale vs Rotation widget problem

I don't think I would call this a bug, but something has changed in Illustrator to where, if I draw an object, then hover over the corner to attempt to scale it, Illustrator now seems to prefer the rotation widget and I'm struggling a little to find the scale widget.  The thing is, in decades of using Illustrator this was never a problem for me until recently.  I don't know when I started to notice it but it's certainly been about a year or so.  I'm working a little bit on auto pilot so I select and attempt to scale, but it's actually rotating.  So I started experimenting to see how much effort it takes to "find" the scale widget and it's actually taking some effort and time.  It's really aggravating because I'm having to slow down and carefully select the scale widget just to scale an object.  I don't suppose there is any way to make Illustrator prefer the scale widget instead of the rotation widget.  In my time with Illustrator, I used to have to "find" the rotation widget, which was fine for me because I don't use it that much. Now I'm having to find the scale widget which I use constantly.