It's very easy to find this topic on reddit/the Premiere forums. It's a feature that's been requested for years but I've never seen an Adobe engineer comment on it.
The default clip keyframes being set to opacity is a largely useless functionality for most editors. You should be able to change which of the base effects is the default option, or just have time remapping be the new default. Especially in today's videos, time remapping is used by people CONSTANTLY.
I use it dozens of times every day, but I can't think of one single time I've ever used opacity keyframes in the timeline. It's been a major annoyance for years having to navigate multiple clicks on a clip every time you need to do a speed ramp.
Please please please, can someone in Adobe finally acknowledge this? It would be great to see this rolled out in beta if not just straight to full release.
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