Brushes, tools presets, why photoshop is getting worse and worse?

I've had the same frustrations with all of this; it's fine if they'd like to make an option to tether a brush to a particular tool, but for heaven's sake make sure we still have the option not to do so! The issue is that for people who have hundreds of brushes made and downloaded, they may not have realised that they using brushes with defined tool settings because this was not a component of previous PS versions. Not being able to toggle this on and off quickly and en masse for existing brushes means that, as OP said, one has to keep a finger on Command+Option for the rest of their painting days, or go back and re-define each brush one by one with the setting unchecked.

To wit, it's a problem that needs addressing in the next version. I've made a thread on the PS feedback site to hopefully achieve this: Toggle "Include Tool Settings" on Existing Brush Presets | Photoshop Family Customer Community

I am not unfamiliar with frustration (or even exasperation) over Adobe-decisions.

Adobe Illustrator’s Pen Tool’s path-closing behaviour for example seems to be nothing short of insulting.

Why destroy the backwards bezier handle and not accept the possibility that Illustrator users might know what they are doing (some of the time at least)?

And there is also the bug fixing performance of some product teams …

But this seems like a non-issue to me.

If one does not want to use those recently introduced Brush features one simply does not have to.

And that some brushes Adobe provides (like the ones created by Kyle T Webster) utilise them seems irrelevant, one can simply avoid loading and using those, can one not?

Hello Derek, it is a difficult question because there are very little choices that are so versatile like photoshop. We are testing out Affinity now, so far it's the best replacement I've encountered, we will see how it performs on a long run.

I don't mind reading and I do know about ctrl option, I mentioned it in my initial post the thing is that I don't want to hold ctrl till the end of my life every time I change a brush while painting.

I do acknoledge that there is always room for improvement so I will take a look at photoshop every now and then and who knows, maybe we will come back to it once it's solved in a reasonable way.

As with all changes and improvements, there is a wee learning curve, but it's really not hard.  To save you reading the whole of the linked thread (although I suggest that you do read it)  Ctrl clicking a preset will load its settings without changing tool.  Meanwhile, we have a much more powerful brush preset management system.   Put some work into it, and you'll soon wonder how you coped with the old way.

Re: Changing the brush without changing the tool

yes, I understand that I can do all those things. But before I didn't have too, I could choose whatever brush I want with whatever tool and there was no need for any extra work. And this is the issue.

All in all I just wanted to let my anger out, so please don't take my post personally. I simply don't get why certain choices are taken away from you even though before it wasn't a problem. I hope that this "feature" will be a bit more flexible with future updates.

Thank you for your response. To be honest I'm addressing Adobe only metaphorically

I'm not saying that it's not beneficial for anyone, I'm saying that not having an easy option to decide wheter you want to use it or not is ridiculous because for a lot of people, artists especially, this feature is destructive.

This is a user Forum, so you are not really addressing Adobe here, even though some Adobe employees thankfully have been dropping by.

I don't want to be limited to use brushed in a way Adobe tells me too.

You seem to mistake Adobe for the person who creates a Brush and decides to »Include Tool Settings« and »Include Color« or not.

Adobe added that option and if you are being honest you should be able to acknowledge that it can be beneficial.