The following has been a persistent and very frustrating issue:
When I go to use any of the keyboard shortcuts involving Ctrl (ex: Ctrl + 2 (lock) Ctrl +Z (undo), etc.) instead of functioning like it should, the second I touch the ctrl key it turns into the direct selection tool and my shortcut doesn't work. As you can imagine, this gets very frustrating and interruptive to my work flow. I've tried restarting my computer, resetting my preferences, and re-installing illustrator fully, and nothing seems to fix the issue. It also doesn't always happen; sometimes it will work normally and then other times it just switches. This has been happening now for about 4 months, and was not corrected when I switched to the 2020 version. Please help