Legacy Free Transform and More

"Why does Adobe insist on taking perfectly fine mechanicisms that need no change and making them annoying, then hiding the setting to put it BACK under something labeled as 'Legacy?' "

Hi

I can answer the second half of your question. Adobe put this back under "Legacy" at the request of users who wanted to be able to distort images without using Shift.  If I insert an image with this forum software, btw, and scale it then I don't hold Shift to keep it proportional. The previous forum software worked the same way. Some of the other newer applications I use also scale proportionally without Shift, so it appears to be the way things are going, and not just with Adobe.

Since we are volunteer users who answer questions on this forum, we do not know what Adobe will do until it is announced, so we can't say when or whether Adobe will decide legacy shortcuts are unnessary. We do know, however, that the keyboard shortcuts for Channels that were changed in PS CS4 are still available in PS 2020 through Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts > Use Legacy Channel Shortcuts. I remember being upset when it happened, but got used to it quickly and can't imagine going back to these old shortcuts now.

https://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2010/05/use_legacy_shortcuts_option_in_cs5.html

As a user, I can't change anything for you, but I can give you the link to make comments that the Photoshop team will see:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

~ Jane