Our beloved Bridge 2018 No Longer Usable?

 There's plenty of discussion on this forum pertaining to the ever changing interface on Bridge.  We have all asked that the squares around the thumbnails and unnecessary padding between images be removed. We have been ignored on these issues.  Props are to be given for the changes in the Bridge 2020 regarding the labels and coloring (nicely done), and the return of the Export panel which was a very useful tool that was removed awhile back.   I will save the destruction of the Camera Raw interface for another post.

I took a chance this past week on upgrading Adobe CC...just the app, nothing else.   Unfortunately it appears that the CC gatekeeping code will no longer allow Bridge 2018 to invoke Camera Raw.  It gave me an error message the "I had to be logged into a valid CC application to access it".  It is possible that something just went wrong during my update.  But if this is in fact true, I'd like to know because that will force me to refrain from updating ANY of my Adobe applications until  I get a new camera which would likely necessitate an update of Camera Raw to handle the files it generates.  Did you do this Adobe?   Are you attempting to obsolete the last excellent version of Bridge before your "stylists" got to it?  I'd like to think that something just 'went wrong' during my update but in attempting to fix my problem I went to the 'installing earlier versions' area for Bridge and thought an uninstall/re-install of Bridge 2018 would handle it.  Only one problem...Bridge 2018 appeared in the uninstall list but NOT IN THE INSTALL LIST.   That forced me into a restore of my computer from a 2 month old C:Drive backup image. After approximately 18 hours I was back in business.  I have detailed this experience so that any other Bridge 2018 users will not make the same mistake, and so that Adobe will understand that many of us are still not satisfied with the final product.  It's unfortunate. We're talking about removing unnecessary padding, and getting rid of image backgrounds.   I used to write code, there's probably about 3 constants in the program responsible for this.  If they were instead variables in the Settings we could all have it the way we want it.