Shift key no longer constrains proportions in Photoshop Free Transform

You keep removing useful shortcuts and established habits that long-time users rely on. I genuinely do not understand what kind of product decisions are being made here. Why are you constantly changing features, hotkeys, and default settings that have worked perfectly well for years—especially when users have built their workflows around them?

It feels as though changes are being made simply to make the software look “updated,” rather than to solve real problems or improve the user experience. Not every long-standing behaviour needs to be redesigned just because someone prefers a different way of working.

For example, in Photoshop, transforming an object used to be free from aspect-ratio constraints by default, while holding Shift preserved the proportions. You simply reversed that behaviour. Why? This was a familiar, efficient workflow for countless users, yet it was changed without any meaningful benefit to the people who actually use the software every day.