I'd recommend that ANY multidimensional property could be separated - not just scale - such as position-like properties found in effects like CC Bend It or Beam.
I separate the X and Y position on layers A LOT, and I often need to do it for the scale of a layer and it's a huge PITA that I can't just right click and separate the dimensions for scale like I can for position
For anyone looking for this moving forward, what I ended up doing and it worked great was to just create two sliders controllers on the layer that I wanted to separate dimensions on. Named them xScale, and yScale. Then quickly threw in an expression in the scale control
x = effect("xScale")("Slider"); y = effect("yScale")("Slider");
/t5/after-effects-ideas/separate-dimensions-on-scale-property/idc-p/14384293#M2943Jan 28, 2024
Jan 28, 2024
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I agree that we should have a "Separate Dimensions" on pretty much every array! This has been requested a few time over the years, but I've never heard any response from Adobe.