Beta, problems as never before: brushes - were so many b 4 now just a short list !

Have had a miserable time today...trying to get used to Beta. REally wish I could go back to my old platform...where everything worked 99% of the time. Can't get the smudge brush to work,

the pencil brush is on top almost of the reg brush I use...if I don't SAVE over and over and over again, what I just did, is gone.

I began with Photoshop well over 25 yrs ago when living in Connecticut - hundreds and more of greeeting cards and a book for kids, etc. have not been on much since here due to health issues and then started to paint again but with soft pastels last 5 yrs. Health issues again, arthritis...so have come home...to PHotoshop. So upsetting hours wasted and temper flaring.  Really need a solution, am very old now....time is short.  No time for this mischagas. Hope to get on my old Photoshop. Not even sure if one can still call but it's the weekend and know I can't. Talked with techs in India for years - obviously, and was always, wonderful. That's it. Cynthia