Thank you but before I leave this discussion, a few things from a UX specialist here and professor of art who had been using most of Adobe's product line since the 80s:
1. Making users who have gone to the extra effort to post here with feedback and questions now go to a separate place and establish a second account to continue discussing et al is in itself a poor design ...and confusing. Ex., I already am a CC subscriber and logged in to participate here. Now you want me to establish another account to further discuss somewhere else? This may be convenient to you but a busy user, esp your high volume high use user, will not go through those extra steps and you end up not capturing likely valuable info.
2. The early versions of mobile PS appear to now have taken into consideration some very basic UX principles such as Fitt's law. I cannot imagine Adobe not employing UX designers who do not have that knowledge or chose to ignore it so I have to wonder whether the mobile product MANAGER chose to dismiss or ignore the recommendations of your UX folks - as sometimes happens with well meaning but young and relatively inexp prod managers. If so, that is problematic for these kinds if design issues are much more problematic on mobile platforms.
3. Empathy is a critical concep in design. I want to encourage you to have better benchmarks for first release (post-alpha). The concept of leveraging users as your alpha test user population when motivated, as it generally is, by an assumption of reduced production cost, is advantageous to the company but not necessarily to loyal users and fails both when, as is the state of play today, the company has strong competition in the channel. I don't know that Adobe's approach of just 'throwing something out there right away' served you here.
4. LAST ONE: 'Adobe' needs to watch 'its' attitude here. The response to user re release date and perceived delay in 2019 seemed snotty defensive. Managing expectations of loyal users requires experience and empathy, the latter of which is a major actual quality ALL educational entities are formally building into training programs today. Get with the 'program', Adobe.
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