2023 New Acrobat GUI is TERRIBLE

Just was "upgraded" from XI to Acrobat 24.2.20854.0  It's unbelievable how awful the GUI is. My productivity is adversely impacted. I wish I could good back to XI and have it work properly on Win 11. I can't believe anyone that has Acrobat for some time likes this GUI.

My old version of acrobat was removed and a newest version installed with new horrible GUI. I want to have the old GUI. There is no option under the hamburger to "disable new acrobat". This is very frustrating. 

I whole heartedly agree. Since I want Adobe to continue to understand how bad their newish UI is nearly a year later, I have yet to meet a person who wants to or has found useful the new UI. Minimalist design works for information access devices such as phones, and tablets. If you are serious about getting work done you are not using a tablet or phone. In true productivity devices, the words "minimalist design" is a keyword for do not buy.

First, Thank you Adobe for allowing us the option to Disable New Acrobat! I wasted 15 minutes trying to figure out where things were the first time I encountered the New Acrobat.

Second,  Why would you move the navigation panes to the right and the tools to the left which is completely opposite of Microsoft products? Were Acrobat users really demanding these changes? I see absolutely no good reason for making those changes.

I use Acrobat to make accessible PDFs so the fact that all of those tools are hidden is absolutely frustrating.  I hope New Acrobat will disappear completely or that I can participate in your next usability study.

A horrible interface, nothing logical or makes any sense. Also the programme became so cumbersome, putting a comment, or updating properties of any comment tool is impractical, yet takes time in processing. Something is wrong with the update/patch in full. I am so sorry for the Project Manager and team behind this unfriendly headche new interface.

Just have to add my two cents (even though I doubt Adobe cares), but... I hate the New Adobe interface. Tried it twice. And disabled it twice. My team and I spend a lot of time commenting on PDFS - your new comments bar (floating or not) is absolutely horrible. Unintuitive to find the tool you need. Impossible to rearrange the tools in the order I want them - to prioritise the ones I use most. Impossible to delete the sign and fill tools (who needs them in the comments bar?! ) Just really unpleasant, unintuitive and user-unfriendly. Was this designed by people who actually use Acrobat, or an AI?

Truly awful! Contrary to every other app (including Adobe’s) on a computer, the save button is on the far right? Someone, please tell me how this is a step forward. The supposed "solution" to enable moving the Quick Toolbar shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem they created: the Quick Toolbar COVERS CONTENT. Again, how is this an improvement? Please, Adobe, I beg you to never allow anyone from the Acrobat UI design team anywhere near the other Adobe applications! Acrobat has always been the most ill-conceived software UI (for an amazing application) in the history of human beings. Nay, the history of the universe.

I really want a standard Windows interface like Acrobat 9, Photoshop or Illustrator. Just keep a stock standard UI with drop-down menus like all other programs..... But Adobe thinks office users are stupid and wanted to make a cutesy UI to handhold people, creating a huge mess. It has been terrible for years. 

Yep it is AWFUL. In Windows it no longer takes the Accent color making it impossible to grab the active window quickly when you are in dark mode - coz you cant see the top or the edge of the active window against other inactive windows (for Adobe, dark mode is good for your eyes sat in front of a screen all day!). And you moved all the tools. And you can't open multiple files in seperate windows Meaning you cant read the full file name of the doc you are viewing. The only saving grace is been able to revert to the previous version.

I could not agree more! It looks like they want back to something from 1990! I literally thought I downloaded the wrong software. It's antiquaited and hard to find the tools. Please change it back!!!!