Well, yes - one can wait until the end of time for Adobe to improve the animation timeline in Photoshop and fruitlessy bash one's head in frustration against Adobe's unwillingness, praying and hoping, to add all the features that you want/wish/require. Based on past (and personal) experience with Adobe, however, I prefer to take the reigns when choosing tools that will solve my needs and problems NOW instead of waiting for something that is most probably not going to change in the foreseeable future (if ever). I mean: if Adobe's management can't even manage to develop and maintain Adobe Animate (formerly known as Flash), then I assume they just aren't interested in improving Photoshop's animation tools either. And history tells us that Adobe's management never understood the needs of traditional 2d animators. Adobe pulled out of the 2d animation market a long time ago. And if that is the case, since we are part of a relatively small segment of Photoshop users --who are interested in animation-- that Adobe management is willing to ignore. There is no money in it for them or the shareholders. Because 2D animation is dead, right? Instead ridiculous genAI tools are added to all of Adobe's products now. Animate anything with AI! Who needs manual animation tools! Righto... Message received. Thus, I vote with my wallet: switch to other animation software that does do what one needs as a 2d animator. Photoshop was never meant to be a frame-by-frame animation drawing software. If that is your goal, then it is a better idea (in my opinion) to add a new tool to your existing set of tools that fits your needs. Even free open source tools manage to do a (far) better job than Photoshop in this regard (frame-by-frame) animation. Life is too short for such humbug from Adobe. Take control over your own workflow and pipeline instead of relying on a company such as Adobe to magically solve these for you. Because you'll be waiting a LOOONG time indeed. Adobe management doesn't care. Neither should we care for Adobe and expect them to improve the animation tools in Photoshop. They won't. (Sorry to be such a downer... Just being a realist after 3 decades of dealing with Adobe)
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