Here's why it is a bug (or at worst a user-adversatial regression): In previous versions of PS, the Direct Selection Tool allowed for the direct selection of arbitrary points within any shape, and when the user nudged those points, no other points in the shape would move. Not only that, if the user constrained that movement to the direction of the edge, the shape would retain its "live shape properties." Only if the selected points were moved counter to the edge would those properties be lost (the live shape would become a regular shape).
As of Photoshop 22.0.0 this longstanding behavior has changed, which is why I'm freaking out a little bit. Now when a shape is placed—let's try a normal rectangle—and the user selects two of its corner points and attempts to nudge them, the entire shape moves (as @TMTI user 1 mentioned above), the same as if the user selected the entire shape with the Path Selection Tool, like a savage. The only way to force Photoshop to behave correctly is to manually break the "liveness" of it by first intentionally moving the selected points in an "off" direction, then continuing in the intended direction. However, doing that means you can never round the corners later, as you could in prior versions of Photoshop, since you had to commit the shape just to make it longer or taller.
I'm fully aware that live shapes can be resized using the numeric entry fields in the top bar—that's always been the case. However, it's a massive chore to be sizing things numerically when directly nudging points by eye is what you're after. (If you're in usability I know I don't need to tell you that.)
The Direct Selection Tool is the tool I use the most, and I nudge shape points hundreds of times per day. This tool-breaking feature of 22.0.0 is driving me up a tree. I hope someone from the mothership sees this note.
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