Why does Photoshop need to preview a change in image size?

[Jonathan Lipkin]

Not really a question, just venting. If I'm changing the size of an image, it's just going look like the same image, only smaller. Why spend time and resources to show me a thumbnail version of a smaller verion of the file? 

To make matters worse, Photoshop just crashed while "preparing to build preview"

Very annoying

PS, this is v 25.12. I've found the most recent version too buggy and crash-prone to run.

[D Fosse]

This isn't normally something you wait for. I have instant Image Size previews here, even on big and complex files.

Crashing is nearly always GPU-related. Submit a crash report to Adobe so the engineers have something to go by.