V20.0.05 Update has Legacy Free Transform Option

https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+Matchett  wrote Sometimes I get the feeling that Adobe are just trying to think of things to fiddle with.  I've used Photosphere since v3 (20 years) and it's certainly evolved tremendously - and we all use different bits of it I guess  This particular tweak was utter madness.

I've also used Photoshop since the early 1990s. One difference between veteran users and a company, is that veteran users (that includes me) often do things the same way for 25 years, while a company interested in staying alive will look around at the competition and if things have changed, they must decide whether to adjust. Because if you look at two of the more popular applications suggested as alternatives to Photoshop, Affinity Photo and Pixelmator, scaling proportionally by default (without the Shift key) is exactly how they behave: No Shift key needed. This seems to be the emerging convention, maybe because people are getting more used to mobile apps where there is no Shift key to hold down.

All of that suggests that the new behavior may not have been "utter madness," but a response to how users expect the latest, most modern applications to work. I still think Adobe needs to make more adjustments to the default behavior; because the default is still frustrating and inconsistent both within Photoshop and with other Adobe applications, and will continue to be that way as long as someone is not yet aware of the new preference setting.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+Matchett  wrote BTW: I put in a request for snap guides in Premiere and they've now done that too. Maybe thay aren't all doing pointless PowerPoint presentations to each other and eating doughnuts (or donuts!).

Lately Adobe has been better about tracking and reporting on user requests. Your Premiere guide request was done partly because you weren't the only one, over 400 users voted for it. These days the Photoshop release notes often link the listed fixes and changes back to the original user requests on the Photoshop Feedback Site​. So we should still request and complain, because they do listen, though there are probably still lots of pointless meetings there.

There is always this push/pull between a business's long-term strategic decisions and responding to what users want. At least it appears that they're trying to strike a balance, instead of going too far to one end or the other.

That's not fair.  He used his secret leprechaun powers.