Crop interface is counterintuitive and needs correction.

Question

As it stands, the current crop 'tool' breaks its own user interface. One uses handles to manipulate the crop tool- reshaping and resizing it as desired. At the instant one has obtained a desired crop size and wants to move the crop tool around on the image, the paradigm flips around: you are suddenly dragging the IMAGE, not the crop tool.
This drives me nuts. I waste a LOT of time wrassling with this inconsistency as I try to crop. If the developers feel this is a good thing, the least they could do would be to have a pref to maintain control of the crop tool when it's in use.

Answer 1

Tony C. -
I alluded to it in my comment early on, I think.
The reason seems to be the developers are going for simplicity.
And somewhere along the way "options" somehow got equated to "complexity". They are (apparently) afraid users will get frustrated and confused if given options to do what they want. I argue customers get MORE confused and MORE frustrated when they spend hours trying to find a simple option they know SHOULD probably be there... don't want to look like an idiot for asking such a simple question on the forums... then end up feeling like an idiot for even looking because the option isn't even there.
To play both sides... the one good point I heard in that regard is 'it's alot harder to take away an option than to put one in later... you can't take away features.'
Understandable... but at the same time, they are perhaps OVER-thinking whether to put something in (like what to do with files of same name with different extensions) that they end up clearly making the wrong decision.
The good thing is they, when realizing a mistake, can go back and fix that in an update. But in the meantime we have the confusion, and wondering if a certain personally important and seemingly simple feature/option will be included in the next update.