P: Transform/Resize is constrained by default - Want ability to go back to legacy behavior

FYI: This is not fixed in the 20.0.5 update that contains a "Use Legacy Free Transform" preference. There also seems to be no way to move the centre point of the scale to set an origin as before. You can hold down Option/Alt and click a set to set a scale point, but you can't do this on a handle (the corners or border midpoints) and there is no visual indicator of where you set it. No ability to snap as before either. All bad and a reduction in functionality in my opinion.

Holi cow.
Just installed update.
My Photoshop now ignores my PSUserConfig.txt entry AND the "Use Legacy Free Transform" box is unticked.
This update has reverted my SHIFT-to-Constrain settings AGAIN!
#facepalm

Do we need to remove the old PSUserConfig.txt entry after this release is installed? Or perhaps will it be used to define this checkbox initially and then redundant?

"Use Legacy Free Transform" ??? This is the language you use?
Why not make it mean something?
"Use SHIFT to constrain Free Transform" would have made sense.
Of course, it would have made sense to include this from day one and had it checked by default. Then if anyone wanted to change the way their application worked, they could try un-ticking it!

Hey! Wise guys at Adobe....Why are you messing around with basic tool shortcuts that warrant no unnecessary changes? You are wasting peoples' time by doing this.
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT.

Proportional scaling without holding Shift is breaks custom, present in all other apps of the Adobe suite and is hampering my productivity.

Okay, I may not see any reply to this comment. I still have more of the same using PS and it all happened after I downloaded the last 'upgrade'. Nothing but trouble, from presets changing, [copy] [paste] failing and 'trailing' and that's not all. Okay, so the sixty-four-thousand dollar question is do I upgrade again after the pop-up just now? I'm going to wait and look around first. If it 'fixes' most, then yes. If not, I'm going to drink, it is Friday afternoon here and I'm nearly done with it. Good Luck.  

I've been using Photoshop for what, 15 years? And they go and change something so basic. Every software I have uses shift to resize proportionally. And the only way to go back to legacy is to write a line of code? All this and getting raped by the ridiculous subscription price. Once again Adobe working hard to piss off the designers who rely on Creative Cloud to run a business. I wish I never switched to InDesign. My headstone will read "Paid for CC subscription until death."

The inconsistency of changing this in one context, of one tool, in one app, is still truly baffling to me sorry. It can only create confusion; the enemy of UI/UX for users of all levels/backgrounds.
 
Removing confusion and clarifying stuff is fundamentally what design is all about. If it needs changing, then it needs changing in every context, of every tool, in every app.