Missing keyboard modifiers in CC2014.

Being able to add masks to any effect in PP CC2014 is great, but the implementation of this new effect... SUCKS!
The Premiere team seems to have forgotten to add keyboard modifiers for manipulating masks.  That right, the Shift and Alt modifiers (for constraining proportions, etc) we've come to take for granted in Photoshop & AE (and even in PP's own Titler for that matter!), are missing in Premiere's new mask effects!  So if you want to use this effect to create an opacity vignette for example, you have to drag out each side of the mask, one... by one... by one... by one...
Remember the fiasco about the Crop tool not having something as basic as side handles for years on end, until Adobe finally admitted their horrible design flaw and fixed it in CS6?  Well... it's BACK!  The square masks have corner handles but... no side handles!  Adobe, are you ***ing with us?!  What should be so easy to do, stretch out a side of the square mask, becomes an arduous task if you hope to keep your mask rectangular with no slanted edges.  This is just about as bad a design I've ever seen in software!  Clearly there are some seriously design-challenged people working at Adobe. 
How many years of FRs and complaining will it take for Adobe to add side handles this time around? 3? 5?  Its clear from some of the great new features in CC2014 that there are some brilliant minds working on the Premiere team.  But from the inexplicably obvious design blunders that keep getting committed again and again, it's also becoming ever so clear that there are some real ***** (insert own word) making such horrible decisions that they've got no place working at Adobe.  Just my point of view.
Adobe, please stop screwing with us and get things right the first time around, instead of releasing half-baked features, just to call the proper version a new 'feature' years later!

Its clear from some of the great new features in CC2014 that there are some brilliant minds working on the Premiere team.  But from the inexplicably obvious design blunders that keep getting committed again and again, it's also becoming ever so clear that there are some real ***** (insert own word) making such horrible decisions that they've got no place working at Adobe.
I concur and I also know (as fact) that some best work and advice from in the team  is being "over ruled" in the push to democratise  the software in the aim of increased  sales to dumber users.

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