Why was the prompt-free Generative Fill workflow removed from Adobe Photoshop when it was one of the most powerful and creative features for fast retouching and visual exploration?

I wanted to raise a real workflow issue regarding Generative Fill in Adobe Photoshop.

For a long time, users could simply:

• make a selection;
• leave the prompt field empty;
• click Generate;

and Photoshop would intelligently improvise based on the image context.

This behavior was incredibly powerful for creative retouching and visual exploration.
It was not a “forgotten prompt” or a bug — it was a legitimate creative workflow.

Many of us relied on this feature to:

• dramatically speed up the retouching process;
• quickly explore multiple creative directions;
• discover ideas we would not have thought of ourselves;
• maintain a spontaneous creative flow without having to write prompts for every action.

Today, the Generate button often stays grayed out when the prompt field is empty, and trying to workaround the new behavior by typing things like a dot, a space, “random,” or “improvise” only produces results that are far more limited, heavily directed, or completely irrelevant.

The problem is that this turns a fluid creative tool into a much more rigid, prompt-driven system, even though one of the greatest strengths of Generative Fill was precisely its contextual improvisation.

Why was this capability removed or restricted?
And more importantly: are there any plans to bring back a true “automatic generation without prompt” mode?