How do I remove the right hand pane in Reader DC (LOCKED)

Sorry, for me the link still works. Maybe you have to be logged in at Adobe Creative Cloud.

So, what is Adobe doing to address the concerns of the community?

It's always fun in software design when someone comes up with a "good" idea and the user base absolutely rejects the new layout/feature.  If Adobe had any sense of community, you would stop foisting your poorly thought out design changes onto the users and (wait for it) allow your users to accept or reject your changes.  With all the data collection you are doing it's a pretty easy measure to see how many users would disable this "feature" if you had an option for it.  Now you're going to force users to edit the .AAPP files to get what we want...you are just forcing everyone to deal with your crap and not having any formal flexibility on the topic.  The fact that Adobe chose to not allow the users an option here is telling...it says to me as the user "we don't care what you want in the software that you paid for, we will just give it to you how we want you to do it."  As an IT professional I'm well aware of the problems that can come into play by offering too many choices or ways to do things- but this is neither of those.  A user can turn off that pane (every annoying time) and the product still works just fine...so you can't say it's impossible to get rid of and that we're asking for you to re-write how Acrobat works.  Someone was impassioned and adamant that this change and felt that it should be required to all users.  I'm sorry, but good ideas are bought into because of their utilitarian nature.  This feels a lot like a bad idea that you are dumping on the end users because someone was too proud to admit that they had a terrible idea.  Or maybe your management is so dominating that the opinions of the engineers are not being heard and instead you're going with a mandate from above.  Either way, it leads me to believe that I'm paying for software in a dysfunctional organization...that may not be true, but that's how my perception is being shaped.  Change is fun when it's a choice, not when it's being dictated to you.

So, sorry to the man/woman who thought this was a good idea to force this on users every single time you open a document (annoying much?).  The user base adamantly rejects this waste of real estate and is fairly asking for a user friendly alternative.  We all don't work in 32" cinema studio displays...maybe you should be considerate of the people who spent their money on software instead of a bigger monitor.  It's not an "AND" decision for most of is- it's an "OR" decision.  Please respect the fact that money is not an infinite resource for most people.

Listen to your users and put this as a choice, not a permanent change.  Oh yeah and every time you update the software you should honor the user's choice and not try and turn this back on with every single patch.  Stop trying to dictate to your users what is best for them and allow them to help you make the best product.  The customer feedback is free- it's unfortunate that you aren't taking this to the bank...